A leading recruitment agencies has revealed that opportunity, diversity and prospects are the top priority for experienced manufacturing candidates searching for a new job.
According to Elevation Recruitment’s specialist manufacturing and engineering division, based in Rotherham, the opportunities within the role itself tops the wish list, followed closely by the reputation of the business and product, and the salary on offer.
The findings come as Elevation reveal an upsurge of 40% increase in placed candidates across industry compared to the same period last year, and that in the past 12 months 72% of manufacturing experts supported by Elevation were appointed into senior roles at SMEs, with 28% choosing larger organisations with a Yorkshire base.
Elevation’s expert manufacturing and engineering team are headline sponsors at the Global Manufacturing Festival, where they will be hosting a recruitment stand to offer free advice to SMEs looking to grow their team.
Indicative of a ‘buoyant’ jobs market – with equal pressure on manufacturing employees and employers to showcase what they can offer – Bohan says SMEs are now ideally placed to recruit experienced manufacturing candidates to help grow their business.
He said: “There is no doubt that the manufacturing industry has really started to recover, with companies increasingly looking to recruit for newly created roles, and existing job roles opening up as a result. Businesses are growing, and so demand for quality candidates is growing too.
“Now, experienced manufacturing experts are in a position to consider every aspect of a job – and as we have found opportunities within a role top the list of priorities.”
Bohan went on to explain that with some of the industry’s leading institutions based in Yorkshire and utilising smaller, local businesses to deliver at various stages of the supply chain, it is the ideal time for SMEs to recruit.
He said: “The popularity of this year’s Global Manufacturing Festival – with speakers including Airbus and Jaguar Land Rover - is indicative of the opportunity for SMEs right here in Yorkshire to compete on an international scale; and with so many quality candidates looking to develop their careers it is the ideal time for businesses to show what they have to offer in order to recruit an experienced team that will help drive growth.”
