With intense competition from tech, finance, and healthcare sectors, attracting and retaining skilled graduates in engineering and manufacturing has become a significant challenge. Many graduates enter the workforce lacking practical experience, leading to high turnover rates and increased hiring costs.
Discovery’s combined approach of targeted recruitment and bespoke development programmes helps you secure the talent you need and retain them long-term.
Firms across various sectors are competing fiercely for STEM graduates, often offering higher salaries and greater flexibility. This competition leaves engineering firms with a shrinking pool of qualified candidates.
Discovery helps you avoid the risks of hiring the wrong graduates. Every candidate goes through a detailed interview and assessment process to demonstrate their skills, prove their potential, and determine if they’re the right fit for your organisation. This ensures both candidates and employers can make the best choices.
With the right development, your graduates will be supercharged: reaching their full potential and delivering for your business.
Over 45% of engineering roles are currently among the hardest to fill, leading to increased hiring costs and extended vacancies. Discovery’s approach ensures a smoother hiring process and improved retention rates, with clients reporting a 93% retention rate within the first two years of our structured programmes. This strategy not only enhances productivity but also reduces long-term recruitment costs.
Over 70% of graduates who complete our development programmes are still with their original employer five years later – vastly exceeding the industry average.
Discovery reduce the time and cost of recruiting your early career talent. With a 1-year guarantee, why not speak to one of our graduate specialists now?
We’ve helped and continue to work with companies from across the world navigate change, from turnaround and transformation to growth and acceleration, by identifying the right talent and ensuring they have the skills and behaviours for high performance.
We remove the risk from recruitment and deliver exceptional retention results through an innovative, tried and tested method of assessment and selection.
We solve our clients workforce acquisition problems for the long-term.
We deliver world-class training to supercharge organisations, delivering career-defining development for their people. Discovery’s unique approach consistently improves performance, productivity and profit.
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