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2018 is the offi­cial year of engi­neer­ing and with four months gone and eight yet to come, we have already seen lots to cel­e­brate and lots to plan for, for engi­neer­ing recruiters and can­di­dates. What is the Year of Engi­neer­ing? The Year of Engi­neer­ing is a gov­­ern­­ment-backed cam­paign, that sets out to cel­e­brate and highlight […]

With an annu­al demand for 124,000 engi­neers and tech­ni­cians, ver­sus an antic­i­pat­ed short­fall of between 37,000–59,000 grad­u­ates, attract­ing the top engi­neer­ing tal­ent is more dif­fi­cult than ever. At RTRS, we work hard to source only the best engi­neer­ing tal­ent out there, attract­ing them to your vacan­cy but are you doing every­thing that you can in

With 39% of busi­ness­es hav­ing increased their engi­neer­ing and tech­ni­cal work­force over the past three years and 51% expect­ing to do so in the next three years, the oppor­tu­ni­ty for career pro­gres­sion with­in engi­neer­ing is big­ger than ever. The big ques­tion is, are you ready for your next engi­neer­ing pro­mo­tion? At RTRS we have put

You would be for­giv­en for think­ing of the British as a nation fueled by Eng­lish break­fast tea, amber ale and a bacon buttie but with con­sumers more like­ly to be found sip­ping a flat white on an over­sized sofa, than gulp­ing a pint of builder’s tea in a greasy-spoon, the cof­fee indus­try is boom­ing and

Maths, sci­ence, design, tech­ni­cal… all hard skills reg­u­lar­ly asso­ci­at­ed with engi­neer­ing but at RTRS we’re see­ing soft skills play an increas­ing­ly impor­tant role in dis­tin­guish­ing top can­di­dates for the top engi­neer­ing posi­tions. The Insti­tute of Technology’s 2017 sur­vey found that 21% of engi­neer­ing prac­tices find exter­nal can­di­dates do not pos­sess the required non-tech­ni­­cal skills, whilst