{"id":11391,"date":"2023-09-02T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/engineering-firms-lose-out-to-fintech-and-it-in-recruitment-war\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:37:42","slug":"engineering-firms-lose-out-to-fintech-and-it-in-recruitment-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/engineering-firms-lose-out-to-fintech-and-it-in-recruitment-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering firms lose out to fintech and IT in recruitment war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work is needed to counter the \u2018oily\u2019 image of jobs for engineers, and stop the digital sector from luring the best graduates<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It is incredibly hard to recruit enough experienced people,\u201d says civil engineer Liz Chapman, head of design at the UK arm of global infrastructure business Stantec. \u201cI have never known it to be this tough to find engineering staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While many companies are withdrawing job adverts, worried about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/jul\/10\/hiring-by-uk-firms-slows-amid-lingering-economic-uncertainty\" title=\"\"> higher interest rates and the threat of an economic slowdown<\/a>, engineering firms are bucking the trend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/02\/engineering-firms-lose-out-to-fintech-and-it-in-recruitment-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dc6469d366c4c5175bd3ed85f73df9333723eb49\/0_372_5721_3433\/master\/5721.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3045556dd52a07d206c1e536bb678767\" title=\"Engineering firms lose out to fintech and IT in recruitment war\" \/>Work is needed to counter the \u2018oily\u2019 image of jobs for engineers, and stop the digital sector from luring the best graduates<br \/>\n\u2018It is incredibly hard to recruit enough experienced people,\u201d says civil engineer Liz Chapman, head of design at the UK arm of global infrastructure business Stantec. \u201cI have never known it to be this tough to find engineering staff.\u201d<br \/>\nWhile many companies are withdrawing job adverts, worried about  higher interest rates and the threat of an economic slowdown, engineering firms are bucking the trend. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is needed to counter the \u2018oily\u2019 image of jobs for engineers, and stop the digital sector from luring the best graduates \u2018It is incredibly hard to recruit enough experienced people,\u201d says civil engineer Liz Chapman, head of design at the UK arm of global infrastructure business Stantec. \u201cI have never known it to be &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/engineering-firms-lose-out-to-fintech-and-it-in-recruitment-war\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engineering firms lose out to fintech and IT in recruitment war<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}