With AMP8 driving £104bn of investment, the water industry faces a critical workforce shortage. Discover why relying solely on sector-experienced talent is no longer viable, and which adjacent industries offer the transferable engineering, project delivery and leadership skills needed to meet rising demand.
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Future Water’s Impact Report 2025 rightly calls for honest conversation across the sector. This commentary explores why workforce sustainability remains a present constraint and why action must start earlier, inside organisations, not just at industry level.
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An article exploring why trade associations and charities increasingly need strategic senior professionals who are also hands-on, what skills these hybrid leaders require, how budget shapes recruitment, and how specialist recruiters can help attract them.
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Find out how water employers can attract new skills
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What are the key skills for policy and public affairs specialists in 2024?
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How will the dawn of a new era for the UK impact policy and public affairs recruitment?
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To anyone with more than a passing interest in the UK water industry, the news from last month that Ofwat was considering relaxing its performance metrics for AMP8 was met with surprise.
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This blog looks at some of the key findings from our inaugural report and looks at how employers can improve their recruitment and retention of specialist water engineers
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Today [11 June], the energy industry will present the results of two sector-wide Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) surveys at the flagship EDI in Energy Conference, hosted by Energy UK, Energy Institute and Energy Networks Association.
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The water industry is facing a talent crisis, with 70% of engineers considering moving to other sectors like renewables, nuclear, and oil & gas within the next two years.
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This blog looks at some of the key findings from our inaugural report into the state of the water industry recruitment market
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This blog looks at how financial services public policy will shift in the coming years as a result of the election and the growth of fintech and what this will mean for future skills requirements.
