“I have spent the last few months mentoring an ambitious, hard-working and enthusiastic robotics student called Liza through the Equal Engineers mentoring scheme. Liza is all these things, and also deaf. She was born with 80% “deafness” which puts her in the severely deaf category. I helped Liza work through some ideas on career prospects …
Challenges with diversity and inclusion within the engineering and technology sector are not just being faced by those working in the industry, but are prominent among engineering students who are part of underrepresented groups with protected characteristics. Students from diverse backgrounds face additional challenges in securing graduate employment in engineering. Statistics around student diversity in …
I have ran careers events for opportunity-seekers every six months for past 3.5 years. Be they in-person, or virtual, a lot of effort goes in to a few hours of contact time between prospective applicant and exhibiting organisations. It got me thinking that there must be some added value EqualEngineers can offer when bridging the …
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With the rise of technology and online jobs, it is imperative for engineering institutions to regenerate their image to have a thriving membership base of students and graduates. But how exactly they do this, is a question each institution is taking with a varying approach.
With the rise of technology and online jobs, it is imperative for engineering institutions to regenerate their image to have a thriving membership base of students and graduates. But how exactly they do this, is a question each institution is taking with a varying approach.
The fact is, graduates from BAME backgrounds are between 5% and 15% less likely to become employed compared to graduates from other backgrounds.
STEM subjects are increasingly important in a globalised world, where skills are shifting and disruptive technologies are becoming increasingly popular
There are various routes into engineering and ways to gain engineering experience, with many of these routes open to diverse candidates from a range of different backgrounds.
Sustainability is a concept that covers a lot of ground (pardon the pun). At its most simple, it’s something that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Why Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programs can strengthen Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives The Similarities ED&I and CSR have a lot in common. Where equality, diversity and inclusion programs promote equity of opportunity for all people and communities, Corporate Social Responsibility promotes initiatives that benefit society and communities as a whole (whether it’s through volunteering, philanthropy, …