Construction isn't short of applicants. It loses them.
Early careers teams are drowning in requests they cannot answer, while the people the industry says it wants never reach the door.
Thoughts · The industry
The state of the industry.
What the market is doing to the people in it, and what that means for your next move.
Gordon Brown is still at the table. Your retired directors are not
Two Prime Ministers in a row have kept a former one advising on the G20. Construction retires its best commercial brains at 60 and never rings them again.
The talent shortage has already arrived. The numbers are starker than most boards realise.
The talent shortage is not on its way, it has already arrived. If you are hiring at any level of seniority, or weighing up your own options, the data is worth ten minutes.
The housing numbers are turning into hiring
A contract worth more than 112 million for affordable housing, signed this month, tells you more about the next hiring cycle than any jobs report.
No Dead Ends - What BAM taught me
There is a number worth sitting with before anything else is said. One million. That is roughly how many young people in Britain are now not in education, employment or training. Not on a gap year. No
Money devolves overnight. Leadership capability does not.
A contact, John, asked me today what I made of Andy Burnham's speech. I did not sit in the room at the People's History Museum. I listened to it. But I spend my working life placing the people who act
Two-Speed Market
There are two UK construction industries right now. They use the same trade press, the same industry bodies, and the same pool of professionals. They look, on the surface, like one sector. But they ar
Skills Shortage Leadership Problem
Every time the construction industry publishes another report on the skills crisis, the framing is the same. Too few young people entering the trades. Too many experienced workers retiring. Not enough
Twelve Years on Site Teaches You
I spent the first twelve years of my working life as a Quantity Surveyor. Not in a back office, not on a desk somewhere far from the work. On live construction sites, on real programmes, for a major tier