One of the biggest challenges facing the industry is how to attract talent into highways and transport.
On this week on Highways Voices, the discussion focuses on practical ways to address industry-wide skills shortages. From apprenticeships and T Levels to digital upskilling initiatives, the episode explores how the Skills for Life programme is helping to develop a stronger, more future-ready workforce across the highways sector.
Skills for Life is a government-led campaign that promotes and provides access to funded skills and technical education opportunities for individuals and businesses, offering various programmes like apprenticeships, skills bootcamps, and free courses for jobs to help people improve their career prospects and businesses find a skilled workforce.
National Highways are very much behind this idea, and so this week’s episode features Head of Talent, Natalie Jones who discusses its approach to apprenticeships and T Levels.
Whether you’re a public or private sector organisation, understanding how to attract and retain skilled people through real-world training could be the key to staying competitive, and sustainable, in the years ahead.
In this podcast you’ll hear some practical ways to address industry-wide skills shortages, from apprenticeships to T Levels and digital upskilling – all covered by Skills for Life.
You’ll also hear about proven methods to attract young people and career changers to roles in highways, transport, and STEM, including how early engagement and storytelling make all the difference and how we’re all in this together because collaboration across the sector, from supply chains to schools, can create a stronger, more resilient workforce ready to tackle tomorrow’s challenges.
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