Jobs fair puts Tata Steel Projects recruitment on track
27 March 2015
Jobseekers interested in working in the UK’s burgeoning railways sector travelled from as far afield as Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Coventry to a jobs fair in Reading in the South of England yesterday.
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 | By Colin Cottell
Jobseekers interested in working in the UK’s burgeoning railways sector travelled from as far afield as Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Coventry to a jobs fair in Reading in the South of England yesterday.
A total of 17 positions were on offer at the jobs fair attended by Recruiter and organised by Tata Steel Projects, an engineering and design consultancy, and part of Tata Steel, Europe’s second largest steel producer.
The company is looking to fill a range of engineering design and management roles, as it expands its Reading office from its current 14 employees. The company is involved in a number of major railway infrastructure projects, including Crossrail.
Helen Windust, resourcing manager, Tata Steel Projects, said the jobs fair offered something different to the company’s usual ways of attracting candidates, which included social media, job boards, recruitment agencies and advertisements in the trade press. “Nothing beats the ability to talk to people, and to engage with them face-to-face. We can sell them our story, and they need to sell themselves to us. It is almost like a first interview,” she said.
With two hours still to go before the jobs fair closed, Windust said that around half of the 50 people who had registered for the event had already arrived and spoken to the firm’s managers. Another five or six people who hadn’t registered in advance had also turned up. “Candidates have been of a really high calibre, and from the reaction of our managers they have been really pleased,” she said.
Windust said that the event had also attracted candidates who were happy to relocate to the company’s other UK offices for work, which include Birmingham, York and Manchester. As a result of the jobs fair’s success, Windust said she planned to hold a similar event in Birmingham.
A total of 17 positions were on offer at the jobs fair attended by Recruiter and organised by Tata Steel Projects, an engineering and design consultancy, and part of Tata Steel, Europe’s second largest steel producer.
The company is looking to fill a range of engineering design and management roles, as it expands its Reading office from its current 14 employees. The company is involved in a number of major railway infrastructure projects, including Crossrail.
Helen Windust, resourcing manager, Tata Steel Projects, said the jobs fair offered something different to the company’s usual ways of attracting candidates, which included social media, job boards, recruitment agencies and advertisements in the trade press. “Nothing beats the ability to talk to people, and to engage with them face-to-face. We can sell them our story, and they need to sell themselves to us. It is almost like a first interview,” she said.
With two hours still to go before the jobs fair closed, Windust said that around half of the 50 people who had registered for the event had already arrived and spoken to the firm’s managers. Another five or six people who hadn’t registered in advance had also turned up. “Candidates have been of a really high calibre, and from the reaction of our managers they have been really pleased,” she said.
Windust said that the event had also attracted candidates who were happy to relocate to the company’s other UK offices for work, which include Birmingham, York and Manchester. As a result of the jobs fair’s success, Windust said she planned to hold a similar event in Birmingham.
