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Resourcing for the Carbon Generation Overcoming skills shortages for a sustainable industry Barry Potier, Helen Charles-Morgan & Caroline Wake Special Guest Boni Chileshe – Atkins Energy
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Recruiting for the Carbon Generation

Nov 18, 2014

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Recruiting for the Carbon Generation and how we need to become the Low Carbon Generation and provide sustainable resource Management in a Sustainable Industry.

In doing so we will need to overcome the skills shortages we face in an effort to turn back the clock on Global Warming by reducing our Carbon Emmissions by using Renewable and Alternative Energy sources
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Page 1: Recruiting for the Carbon Generation

Resourcing for the Carbon Generation

Overcoming skills shortages for a sustainable industry

Barry Potier, Helen Charles-Morgan & Caroline Wake

Special Guest Boni Chileshe – Atkins Energy

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Introduction

Barry Potier Co-founder & Operational Board Member of Resourcing Solutions AND not a Recruiter!

Compliance Quality, Health & SafetyFacilitiesInformation Technology Marketing Sales Support

Environmental Forum

Wildlife Conservationist and passionate about the future of

Renewable Energy

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About Resourcing Solutions

Resourcing Solutions founded 1996

Specialist Recruitment Consultancy in the

Rail, Engineering, Construction, Telecoms,

Power and Renewable Energy marketsTalk to the Experts

Talk to Us

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Skills shortages a brief history

First recorded watermill in UK 718 and windmill 1185

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A brief history - 1698

First steam powered engine using wood

helps to drive forward the textiles, light

engineering and manufacturing industries

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First and second

industrial revolutions and

the use of coal fired

engines and steel

manufacturing fires up

heavy industry and

massive construction

projects

A brief history 1780 -1850

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How they resolved the SkillsShortages - The good and the bad

• Study tours

• Revolutionising the apprenticeship system

• Philosophical societies

• Formation of trade unions

• Prolific use of child labour

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1820 -1840 Exodus of British skilled workers

to continental Europe

1892 – 1913Exodus of Europeans

to the ‘New World’

Migratory and transient workforces

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Migration of workers 1892 - 1913

12 million people processed through Ellis Island

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1st modern Recruitment Agent

Birth of the 1st recruitment agent a “Padrone”

Def. A man who exploits or finds work for immigrant workers

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70’s & 80’s Oil and Gas Industry

• Fun, vibrant, exciting THE place

to be

• Transitory workforce driven by

best projects and best pay rates

• Development of ‘Specialist’

recruitment agencies• Use of International Resource Pools

• Oil Price crisis leads to increased interest Alternative

Energy sources

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Introduction

Boni ChilesheRegional Operations Manager

Atkins

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Experience from industry

The ProblemQuantity, Quality and Cost

The ImpactProgramme overspends, buoyant Contract Market and re-

skilling

The ScaleGraduate numbers, engineering and science up-date

SustainabilityFewer graduates and economical departments and Universities

Alternative SolutionsIndustry academies, school promotions and Government

funding

Food for thought

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Power for the people

Caroline Wake Recruitment Specialist Renewables & Power Generation

Previously IT recruiter in a mature and saturated industry utilising traditional recruitment methodology

• IT clients confident candidates can be found• Flexible approach with multiple training platforms and

skills were considered transferable

• Simple recruitment model works for IT

It doesn’t for Renewables

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Reaching new heights

European wind industry sector created 33 new jobs everyday for the past 5

years

In 2020 this amount will double to 325,000 jobs

Sounds impressive, but how are we going to fill these positions?

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Riding the crest of a wave

The renewables sector is only going to grow

Therefore so will the problem

Wind technology is established

But it is very hard to source candidates

Global demand increasing

Effective employee selection and sound personal

development high priority

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Going with the flow

Do you go with the flow?

Advertise your jobs at great

expense, time & money and look forward

to the 350 IT Project Managers

that will apply for your vacancy

Or do you apply a new theory……………. Or is it an old theory?

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Introduction

Helen Charles-MorganBranch Manger Energy Division

Ashby, Midlands

Renewable Energy & Power

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Let’s look at the situation now

• What is your experience likely to be?

• What our clients need to do to help us

• What we will do and our methods and initiatives that will help us to achieve your goals

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What is your experience likely to be?

How long are you going to put up with this…..

• Inappropriate and unsolicited CVs• Email invasion• Cold calling from unrelated sector recruiters• Same candidate CV from multiple sources• Preferred Supplier Lists and managed services

operated in toxic environment• Lack of interview controls• Poor candidate management and engagement

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What our clients need to do to help us

• Meet with us to discuss your vacancies in detail

• Understand your organisation and culture

• Obtain detailed job descriptions and remuneration

packages

• Discuss cross skilling, conversion and training

initiatives

This will help to promote your organisation as an “Destination Employer” to future

employees

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The methods & initiatives that will help us to achieve your goals

To source the best fit candidates we will:

• Search our database and online CV databases• Headhunt• Network• Advertise on job boards, our own website and job

aggregators• Referrals• And use social networking sites using the great new

tools, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook

What we will do

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The future of recruitment

• What does it look like now?• The changes that will need

to be made• The new look service

offering and the technology that supports this

• Building of a genuine low carbon community

• Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration

• And what happens if we don’t?

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What does it look like now?

CANDIDATES – JOB SEEKERS

EMPLOYERS – JOB VACANCIES

Advertising Web boards, Hard copy

Social NetworkingLinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Tools Mass job board propogator

RECRUITMENT AGENCY / CONSULTANCY

Web AND Job Board CV DatabasesSocial NetworkingLinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Extensive DatabaseSearch & SelectionToolsCV Parsing

RESOURCER / RPO

MARKETINGCONSULTANTCONSULTANT

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And pictorially…..

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Social & Professional networking

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Back to the Future

Lessons LearntStudy Tours

Collaboration of skilled workers and cross training

Apprenticeships and Training5 year courses supported by Government and funded by industry (E.ON plugin2engineering) and agencies!

Philosophical SocietiesModern day professional networking with built in exclusion zones and reduction in cyber noise levels

Cross Skilling and ConversionLearn from other industries where companies have already been doing this e.g. Network Rail

Transient and Immigrant WorkforcesUse of skilled workers in critical skills shortage scenarios supported by language and cultural enhancement programmes

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Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration

Closer working relationshipsClients and consultanciesCompany to companies

Corporation to corporationCountry to country

Continent to continentCulture to culture

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If we don’t………….!