In our first industry poll we asked our Engineering customers, “What inspired you to become an Engineer?”.
Was it making things with Lego as a child, following in the footsteps of family members or perhaps taking the advice of careers advisors at school?
We love that Engineers are innovative, creative and fascinated by how things work.
So this month we loved watching Electrical Engineer and YouTube user “Sufficiently Advanced”, build a real life Mjolnir (Thor’s Hammer) with electromagnets and a thumbprint scanner.
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This year’s Scottish Engineering awards dinner, celebrating their 150 year anniversary, was a genuinely stirring and thought provoking event.
It was kicked off in excellent, patriotic style by the award winning Scottish Power Pipe Band which served to focus the audience on the real significance of the event. Continue reading
As 2015 celebrates Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink, a recent Scottish Government report shows industry sector growth of 20% in four years. Currently employing 360,000 people, Scotland’s Food and Drink industry is estimated to be worth over £16bn by 2017 and will clearly play a significant role in Scotland’s future economic success.
To ensure the industry achieves its ambitious target, Food and Drink employers must look at how to attract, retain and develop talent into what is becoming an increasingly competitive sector.
Providing services and support designed to influence Government policy, develop new training initiatives and promote best practice, the Scotland Food and Drink Skills Academy (SFDSA) is one organisation focussed on skills development across the industry.
To find out more about the services they offer, where they fit into the supply chain and how Food and Drink organisations can benefit from their work, we spoke with Angie Foreman, Operations and Partnership Manager at SFDSA: Continue reading
As active members of Scottish Engineering, our specialist recruiters regularly attend the quarterly regional meetings across Scotland.
Tommy White, Engineering Recruiter with Escape attended their most recent event held at Heliex Power in East Kilbride on 2nd March 2015. Continue reading
For many of us, ‘looking for a new job’ is one of our top New Year resolutions, along with ‘going to the gym’, ‘healthy eating’ and ‘spending less’.
At Escape, we unfortunately can’t help you with your fitness programme or household budgets but we do know recruitment and we hope the information below will help you in your job search in the year ahead. Continue reading
As we come to the end of 2014 we thought we’d take a look back at the year and some of the stories, achievements and highlights from the world of Engineering and Manufacturing. Continue reading
As active members of Scottish Engineering, our specialist recruiters regularly attend the quarterly regional meetings across Scotland.
Duncan Clark, Design & Development Engineering Recruiter with Escape attended their most recent event held at FMC Technologies in Dunfermline on 23rd October. Continue reading
As we’re always interviewing other people we thought it might make for a change to interview ourselves! Each month we’ll pick a member of the Escape team for a 60 second interview. So this month, let’s meet Claire…… Continue reading
At this year’s SMAS Annual Conference, we met with Veronica Ferguson, Industrial Outreach Officer from the ‘ESPRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Laser-Based Production Processes’ and heard how, as part of the UK National Centre led by Heriot Watt University, they are working with industry partners to develop new ways of using lasers in UK manufacturing, helping organisations across Scotland and the UK to take advantage of the latest innovations and developments in this rapidly growing field.
Intrigued to understand more about this growing, multi-billion dollar global industry we met up with Veronica after the conference to find out more: Continue reading
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