A former Rochdale schoolboy who left school at 16 and is now the chief executive officer of a global technology giant is calling on more youngsters to think about so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) jobs.
Carl Ennis, the CEO of Siemens’ Great Britain and Ireland division, took up an apprenticeship when he walked out of the school gates for the last time. He went on to complete an engineering degree with his then employer and, 32 years later, he is a senior executive at a global firm which employs more than 300,000 people around the world and has a market value of around £75bn
Ennis told a special episode of The Northern Agenda podcast – dedicated to the topic of solving the STEM skills shortage – that the challenges of getting young people into engineering remain the same now as they were three decades ago. And there is now a shortfall of some 170,000 workers in the area, reports the Manchester Evening News.
