Balfour Beatty has featured twice in this month's Early Careers edition of New Civil Engineer highlighting both the benefits of hiring young professionals and exploring what the industry needs to focus on from an apprentice's point of view.
In the first piece, Ryan Mayor, Balfour Beatty Early Careers Manager, highlights how the company has put in place a supportive culture for early careers professionals to achieve long term success, integrating them into the business through combined induction events that help connect them with each other as well as bringing together allies through Balfour Beatty's Affinity Networks.
“Culture eats strategy alive” explains Ryan. “It is in our DNA to hire young people. We have been helping get people started for decades and there are people at the top of the businesses who started that way with us.”
Nusayba Abaas, one of Balfour Beatty's Civil Engineer Apprentices, has also featured, discussing what - in her view - the industry needs to focus on moving forward, including the adoption of new technologies, such as AI.
Speaking about AI, Nusayba says: "For example, with AI, you can't just go straight to ChatGPT and give it all the information that your company has. A more careful approach is needed, despite the appetite for adoption of AI technologies."
Balfour Beatty is committed to attracting the next generation of talent, with 7.4% of the company’s UK workforce made up of Apprentices, Graduates, Trainees and Sponsored Students as part of its membership of The 5% Club - a dynamic movement of employers committed to providing ‘Earn & Learn’ positions.
Read the articles in full here and here.
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Notes to editors:
- Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group with over 25,000 employees driving the delivery of powerful new solutions, shaping thinking, creating skylines and inspiring a new generation of talent to be the change-makers of tomorrow.
- We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.
- Over the last 114 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world. Currently, we are working to deliver Hinkley Point C, the first UK nuclear power station in a generation; constructing the world-class arts and cultural facility, the Lyric Theatre, in Hong Kong; and designing, building, financing, operating and maintaining the Automated People Mover superstructure at the fifth busiest airport in the world, Los Angeles International Airport.
- Balfour Beatty is committed to creating an environment where all our employees can be themselves at work and perform at their best. With a number of major infrastructure projects in the pipeline, Balfour Beatty aims to meet current and future skills demand by attracting and retaining the best available talent and is committed to removing the barriers to minority groups across the industry to widen the talent pool.
- The 5% Club is a dynamic movement of employers committed to earn & learn as part of building and developing the workforce they need as part of a socially mobile, prosperous and cohesive nation. The Club exists to help its members and all employers increase further the number, quality and range of earn & learn opportunities across the UK.
