With global migration of workers increasingly necessary to business productivity, and instances of modern slavery at record highs, ethical and efficient recruitment methods are more vital than ever before.

Here’s how VHR is helping workers achieve a better quality of life, whilst supporting the industries we love and giving back to local and global communities.

Building a New Generation of Workers

Numerous European Union (EU) countries are experiencing an urgent skills shortage across engineering positions, particularly of mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and civil engineers. 42% of Aviation business leaders and 22% of Engineering business leaders marked a shortage of technical skills as the single biggest challenge facing their companies in the coming years, and the UK alone must produce 180,000 more skilled engineering recruits a year just to meet current demand.

Rapid developments in software, AI and cyber security are also increasing global demand for a widening range of new skills.

What happens when this talent can’t be found inside the EU?

 

Driving Social Mobility Across the World

VHR finds the talent needed around the world when not available domestically by scouring the globe to deliver skilled talent through ethical solutions. We incorporate, register, obtain labour licenses and continually strive to improve our practices to provide high quality contract and permanent workers around the world.

We are addressing the European skills shortage in a variety of ways:

· Sourcing – VHR’s international recruitment team travel the globe to conduct recruitment drives and assessment centres in the home countries of our candidates.

· Business Leader Consultations – We regularly consult with our global networks of business leaders across Aerospace & Aviation, F1 & Automotive, Engineering & Defence and Marine. By discovering the skills shortages

· Training – When talent does not exist, VHR creates it. We work in candidate home countries to identify potential workers and equip them with the skills required by our client businesses. We partner with airlines, MROs and automotive businesses to conduct intensive short training programmes and compliantly transport the workers to the client site following their training.

· Upskilling Communities – When workers return to their home countries, they bring back highly specialist skills which local communities could not previously access, and help the next generation to build their own successful careers.

· Schools – VHR’s team of technical recruitment consultants visit schools, colleges and universities to speak to provide careers advice to young people and increase awareness of the exciting careers our industries provide.

 

Truly International Services

The first-hand knowledge and experiences of our diverse workforce provide the flexibility to adapt to fluctuating markets and client demands, and the expertise to engage with candidates of many nationalities and best support migrant workers. With international business at the core of VHR, our team originate from over 20 nationalities and a variety of backgrounds, speaking 24 languages.

VHR provides legally compliant recruitment solutions to provide vital skills that businesses could not otherwise access, and provide migrant workers with ethical services, fair pay and rewarding careers.

 

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Find out How Industry Leaders are Solving the Engineering Skills Shortage.