Category: retention
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Modern hiring: closing the construction skills gap
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Competency-led, modernised recruitment and selection practices are key to solving construction’s skills crisis. June 2025 marked the launch of the Construction Skills Mission Board (CSMB). The private and public sector partnership body is tasked with the recruitment of 100,000 construction workers a year by the end of Parliament to meet government housebuilding and infrastructure targets. A recent CIOB report has since speculated…
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Industry rallies behind new infrastructure skills plan
Lorraine Gregory, director of CECA Midlands, added: “The Infrastructure Sector Skills Plan represents a vital step forward in tackling the skills challenges our industry faces, and will help to ensure the right people are in the right places to deliver the substantial pipeline of work that exists in the years ahead. View the original article…
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Green skills initiative calls for industry-wide commitment
The City of London Corporation’s Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce has launched its new industry pledge to help support the recruitment and retention of young and diverse people in ‘green jobs’. The Future Skyline Skills commitment aims to help boost the supply of skilled workers needed to deliver central London’s sustainable infrastructure. The commitment is…
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ECITB sets out strategy to address labour market competition
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The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has published its new strategy, Leading Industry Learning, outlining how it will help to address skills shortages and support industry growth. The five-year plan, from 2026 to 2030, outlines a strategy to develop the skills needed to deliver critical infrastructure across Great Britain. The ECITB forecasts that 40,000 additional…
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Construction must ‘change and rethink’ workforce strategy, CITB says
Nothing changes. For years (decades )CITB has been reporting ‘we need xxxx more brikies, yyyy more chippies, etc etc. They are not there; they haven’t been; they won’t be. Construction ‘activity’ is up and down, whether or not we use the expression ‘economic regulator’ or not- it reflects many factors- changing needs, wants, costs, availabilities,…