Compass Group has launched a career hub for people who are struggling to gain employment. The Social Partner Hub will support candidates from a range of backgrounds who are facing barriers to entry into the job market, including ex-offenders, care leavers, long term unemployed and people with disabilities. The platform is being launched as part of…
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NHS Property Services (NHSPS) is set to continue its Stepping Stones colleague development programme for a third year. Skill building is an essential practice, and the 15-month programme has produced many success stories with multiple previous participants stepping into leadership roles within NHSPS. The course will see NHSPS colleagues become more confident in their roles…
In advance of International Women in Engineering Day on 23rd June, Jamie Dunn, National Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineer (UK) at Veolia, tells Facilities Management Magazine why she got into engineering. How did you get into Engineering? Growing up, I had a keen interest in “how things worked”. As a kid my Dad would take me…
ABM has been recognised by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) as a ‘Silver Employer’ under the Armed Forces Covenant scheme. The Armed Forces Covenant was introduced as a “promise by the nation ensuring that those who serve or who have served in the armed forces, and their families, are treated fairly“, helping members of…
A career in construction can be difficult but satisfying, since you will have the chance to acquire many skills and work on exciting projects. There are also various career paths that you may want to explore to find the right opportunity for you. This is why today we have prepared a handy guide, that you…
SOCOTEC has hosted a second careers/STEM Day for students of The Grace Academy in Solihull at its Training and Operations Centre in Coventry. Students from the academy near Birmingham interviewed Materials Testing, Structures and Pavements, and Ground Investigation teams, and heard presentations relating to future science-based careers’ opportunities. They also toured laboratories as a concrete…
It can feel like time is frozen in place when it’s 2 am, empty coffee mugs surround you, half-eaten bowls of instant noodles rest discarded on your desk, and you’re still tapping away at the essay you started five hours ago. Graduation can feel like years away. However, it’s closer than you think, and before…
Paul Wrighton, Regional Director for Sustainable Infrastructure at Johnson Controls UK&I, tells FM Magazine what he’d like to see from the Chancellor in the Spring Budget on Wednesday. We need a renewed commitment to decarbonisation, across all sectors – especially for both domestic and SMEs, as well as looking at ways to encourage more training…
James Massey, managing director of Facilities Management at MRI Software, says FM teams need to satisfy a growing expectation of ‘hotel-style’ amenities among office workers. There is little doubt that hybrid working is here to stay in the wake of the pandemic. But in 2023, the offer of hybrid working alone is not enough to…
Opportunities abound for those who dare, says Leigh Anderson, managing director of Bis Henderson Recruitment as the UK commemorates National Apprenticeship Week 2023. Until recently, very few civilians had much idea about what ‘logistics’ meant – something military perhaps? Or something to do with drivers and shelf-stackers? At any rate, not an obvious career recommendation…
ABM UK has opened its doors to a fifth cohort of participants on its Junior Engineering Engagement Programme (J.E.E.P.), and added another school to its roster. The 2022 programme kicked off at Bobby Moore Academy in London with the immersive course then touring schools in Bradford, Manchester and London between September and December. While previous years have focused primarily on the engineering side of…
The lifting industry’s largest ever careers event will take place at this year’s LiftEx exhibition in Aberdeen, and is being organised by the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) in conjunction with TechFest, a local specialist in the promotion of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects. Keen to fill the gap between school and industry…