How can the government implement its housebuilding and infrastructure strategies with a skills shortage?

Skills reforms are forward progress, but more flexibility is needed to keep the construction industry moving.

Construction employers have a responsibility to ensure appropriate policies are in place when hiring apprentices.

A Few Good Lads founder Matt Roberts is trying to tackle Canada’s shortfall of construction workers, while offering reliable and supportive conditions for operatives

As the UK’s energy transition ramps up, can the construction and engineering skills pipeline keep pace?

Construction employers must consider complex immigration rules before recruiting skilled professionals from the international talent pool

The government has unveiled a nationwide campaign to link British jobseekers with employers

Industry will need to hire approximately half a million people to meet demand

You don’t have to look far to find a headline about the recruitment crisis the industry is facing currently. So, could older workers hold the answer?

As the government urges early retirees back into the workplace, the over-50s talent pool could help solve construction’s skills conundrum

Inclusive grassroots initiatives are the only way construction will appeal to the next generation of talent from diverse backgrounds

A collaborative approach is needed to avert the looming skills crisis in engineering construction

A CIOB study, called Building Opportunity: Employing People with Criminal Convictions in Construction, has found that just 25% of construction executives would hire people with a criminal conviction – despite the…

Apprentice turned recruitment officer Daniel Simpkins believes collaboration between construction firms and apprenticeship services such as EN:Able Futures is key to tackling long-term skills challenges

How transparency on planning data can secure long-term skills pipeline

By helping refugees to start a new life in the UK, Kier is also tackling the skills shortages it faces

Why the recruitment of skilled migrant workers should be just one part of the solution to tackle construction’s skills gap

Dave Stitt FCIOB shares his candid opinion on why construction is failing to tackle the skills crisis