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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Phillip Inman

Engineering firms lose out to fintech and IT in recruitment war

Engineering Student in laboratory
Engineering students may be lured by higher salaries in the financial sector. Photograph: Peter Devlin/Alamy

‘It is incredibly hard to recruit enough experienced people,” says civil engineer Liz Chapman, head of design at the UK arm of global infrastructure business Stantec. “I have never known it to be this tough to find engineering staff.”

While many companies are withdrawing job adverts, worried about higher interest rates and the threat of an economic slowdown, engineering firms are bucking the trend.

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