Engineering & Defence
Easily the most diverse and specialised industry in the world, engineering consists of a close-knit, highly skilled, tightly-networked society of experts. Technology enablement and advancement has seen notable change in the sector – technology is both a tool and a component of successful engineering – and despite a moderate impact from the global financial crisis, the industry continues to expand and grow.
Challenges
Engineering organisations face recruitment challenges similar to other sectors – highly specialised, technical staff supported by large back-office functions. This can be an issue, as organisations need to be able to search out highly-prized talent whilst managing higher volumes of back-office staffing in the most efficient manner.
Shortages of talent, especially within the technical field, are commonplace. Global competition and the relative ease of movement of engineers between countries throughout the world poses both risks and benefits for organisations – it can be easier to find talent internationally, but also makes it much harder to retain staff in the longer term.
Our Credentials
We’ve engaged with five of the world’s leading engineering organisations, delivering a variety of services including RPO, contingent workforce services and resourcing consultancy.
Our Solutions
Through experience we’ve learnt that engineering lends well to talent pooling and pipelining – utilising a recruitment technology or applicant tracking system, in conjunction with candidate attraction strategies, to build databases of qualified candidates, and to keep them engaged with the organisation until there are available roles. While this isn’t a perfect solution for the very hard-to-source roles, it helps to ensure there is an ongoing supply of talent during spikes in hiring activity and assists in long-term engagement of potential candidates.
We’ve had particular success with employer branding campaigns in conjunction with candidate attraction strategies. Frequently, there is limited knowledge of the client’s employer brand in the candidate marketplace – a well-executed campaign that encapsulates the employer brand has a positive effect on those applying for current roles, but also has a longer-term effect on candidates exposed to the brand. Simply put, a well-executed branding campaign generates results over the long-term.
Within RPO and talent solutions, we’ve learnt to locate staff all over the world, utilising the extended social networks of engineers that stretch from continent to continent. In some cases, where technicians are that highly specialised that there may be only five or ten qualified candidates in the world, we’ve used executive talent sourcing strategies to map and locate candidates, ensuring that our customers know where potential talent is – even if it’s in another organisation.
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