Constructing Excellence has asked that its members promise to do what they can to give graduates the chance to experience working with concreting tools, bricklaying tools and other equipment essential to the skilled carrying out of their trade.
The organisation explains that all of the unemployed graduates looking for work in the built environment sector together account for the equivalent of about two per cent of the full-time employed workforce.
As a result, if each company were able to hire one in 50 of its staff as a graduate on an internship, they could all be given the chance to work with concreting tools, bricklaying tools or the relevant machinery to their role.
The move also gives firms the chance to react to changing workloads by taking on interns, Constructing Excellence points out.
Constructing Excellence aims to encourage long-term improvement in the industry through thought leadership, access to government and the development of best practice.
Posted by Andrew Miles
The organisation explains that all of the unemployed graduates looking for work in the built environment sector together account for the equivalent of about two per cent of the full-time employed workforce.
As a result, if each company were able to hire one in 50 of its staff as a graduate on an internship, they could all be given the chance to work with concreting tools, bricklaying tools or the relevant machinery to their role.
The move also gives firms the chance to react to changing workloads by taking on interns, Constructing Excellence points out.
Constructing Excellence aims to encourage long-term improvement in the industry through thought leadership, access to government and the development of best practice.
Posted by Andrew Miles