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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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Anglian Water’s @One Alliance partnered with Murray McIntosh to provide ongoing recruitment support across key commercial roles, ensuring continuity across live programmes within a complex alliance environment.
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Lauren Maddock's opening speech at the 2025 Energy UK EDI Conference highlights the importance of persistence, visibility and practical action in building a more inclusive energy sector. Read the full speech and why Murray McIntosh is proud to sponsor this vital event.
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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the UK policy landscape. This article examines its growing role in regulation, political strategy, and public affairs—and highlights what professionals need to know to stay informed and relevant.
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Discover best practices for recruiting environmental policy analysts in the UK. Learn what skills to look for, common challenges, and how to build a more effective hiring strategy.
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Discover how to recruit aerospace engineers in the UK with practical talent acquisition strategies focused on sourcing, hiring, and retaining top technical talent.
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Discover how engineers are transitioning between defence, aerospace, marine, manufacturing, water and other sectors. Learn how to position your transferable skills and stand out in today’s competitive UK market.
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KKR’s failed £4 billion Thames Water deal underscores that the UK water industry’s crisis runs deeper than one company’s finances. Murray McIntosh argues that only decisive structural reform, not another quick fix, can restore stability and public trust.
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Engineering by Murray responds to the UK-EU defence deal, highlighting the opportunity for business growth via the SAFE fund but warning that without a strategy to tackle critical STEM skills shortages, its impact will be limited.
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Discover the 2025 Water Industry Labour Report – essential reading for water utilities, contractors and engineers. Backed by responses from 4,391 professionals, it reveals critical skills shortages, rising job mobility, and urgent workforce gaps affecting AMP8 project delivery.
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Murray McIntosh’s 2025 Labour Report reveals a deepening talent crisis in the UK water sector, with almost half of engineers citing skills shortages as the top challenge—and a third eyeing exit. Urgent action is needed as AMP8 begins.