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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Apprenticeships develop employee skills</title>
      <description>The Commercial Management Training Programme lasts for two years and allows candidates to spend time in all of the main areas of the company's business. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Wyko, an Eriks Company</category>
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      <title>Recruitment company puts apprentices to the test</title>
      <description>Novel scheme enables AM Recruitment is to sponsor apprenticeships for its sister company Richard Alan Engineering at the Group base in Dewsbury.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>AM Recruitment </category>
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      <title>Scheme promotes engineering education</title>
      <description>The Engineering Education Scheme allows students to gain hands-on experience of real technical problems.  </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Peter Brotherhood</category>
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      <title>Firm provides advice on risky jobs</title>
      <description>Providing access to a 24-hour number, available 365 days a year, gives contractors and their relatives a single point of contact in the event of an emergency situation. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Teenagers show little interest in engineering</title>
      <description>A survey of career preferences among 14 and 15 year-olds shows engineering lies outside their top-ten choices.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Institution of Engineering and Technology</category>
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      <title>Initiative trains manufacturing staff</title>
      <description>The Skilled Workforce Initiative runs for 12 weeks and the curriculum will include applied math and manufacturing practices, blueprint reading, hand tool usage and employment, life and safety skills. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Bison Gear and Engineering Corporation</category>
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      <title>Website showcases rail jobs</title>
      <description>Rail Recruiter offers targeted advertising for UK rail employers and rail recruitment agencies. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rail Recruiter</category>
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      <title>Companies compete for engineering staff</title>
      <description>NES is facing increasing pressure to supply its clients with suitably qualified engineers. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Jobsite visitor numbers rise 75%</title>
      <description>267,483  users visited Jobsgroup.net sites in May 2007, up from 153,387 in November 2005. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Reality TV star studies engineering</title>
      <description>The winner of an Indian reality TV show has received a GBP 80,000 four-year scholarship to study engineering at the University of Warwick.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>University of Warwick</category>
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      <title>Website opens to non-member job ads</title>
      <description>Posting job ads on the UKIVA website is free for members, while non-members must pay a small fee.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>UK Industrial Vision Association</category>
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      <title>Engineering sector faces recruitment crisis</title>
      <description>Engineering and technology businesses are turning to countries such as India, China and South Africa to plug the skills gap.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Institution of Engineering and Technology</category>
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      <title>Company offers varied engineering experience</title>
      <description>Advanced Technical Recruitment's staff have telecoms, photonics, audio and general technical manufacturing experience.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Advanced Technical Recruitment</category>
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      <title>Adding entertainment to engineering</title>
      <description>Hoerbiger Origa MD Ray Barnes is calling for a combination of engineering and entertainment to capture the public's imagination.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Hoerbiger-Origa</category>
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      <title>Company upgrades staff and machinery</title>
      <description>William A Lewis Engineering believes apprenticeships are cost-effective for companies as well as for individuals. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Shrewsbury College</category>
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      <title>Company warns about skill shortage</title>
      <description>NES says that companies will find it difficult to fill their vacancies without efforts to address the skills shortage in technical, engineering, rail and IT personnel.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Job site nominated at business awards</title>
      <description>JobsGroup.net received a nomination for the AXA Small to Medium sized Business of the Year Award and the Orange Best Use of Technology in Business Award at the National Business Awards - North West.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Engineering recruiter wins Queen's Award</title>
      <description>NES has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2007 for excellence in international trade.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>81,500 engineers register with job site</title>
      <description>JustEngineers.net attracts over 130,000 users a month and features more than 15,500 live vacancies. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Back to basics with recruitment</title>
      <description>Basic recruitment service is tailored to the needs of small- to medium-sized engineering businesses.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Sponsorship signals recruiter's motorsports focus</title>
      <description>Technojobs is sponsoring Sam Hancock and his Porsche Carrera Cup Campaign 2007 - one of the UK's premier professional motor racing championships.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Technojobs</category>
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      <title>HR company relocates to Stratford-upon-Avon.</title>
      <description>Recruitment and human resources (HR) company Listgrove has relocated the centre of its operations to Stratford-upon-Avon. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Listgrove</category>
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      <title>Engineering recruiters win recognition</title>
      <description>Technical and engineering recruiters successfully complete the REC's Diploma in Recruitment Practice.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Recruitment company expands in northeast</title>
      <description>NES has appointed five additional recruitment consultants in the North East in response to continued demand for skilled personnel.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Job site wins innovation award</title>
      <description>The JobsGroup.net online jobs network has won the award for Best Technical Innovation at the Onrec Awards 2007. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Jobseekers' magazine rewards innovation</title>
      <description>Monthly publication salutes the creative geniuses, obsessive perfectionists and eccentric lunatics that have engineered the world around us over the last three centuries.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>New employee manages rail personnel</title>
      <description>NES has appointed Alan Tarrant to the rail division to help meet the demand for experienced personnel.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Recruitment company makes new appointment</title>
      <description>NES has appointed Michael Sharman as Business Development Manager to its Manchester-based headquarters. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Job site manager wins student award</title>
      <description>Gary Lightfoot, JobsGroup.net Sales Manager, has won the Tell Joi Student of the Year Award, after completing ISMM Level 5 Diploma in Strategic Sales, with a focus on Sales Management.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Technical recruitment website is relaunched</title>
      <description>Technojobs greeted the New Year with new branding, expanded content and a range of functional improvements aimed at streamlining the job search and selection process for technical professionals. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Technojobs</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/ttk/ttk101.html</link>
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      <title>Job board focuses on engineering sector</title>
      <description>Website aims to simplify  the challenging task of finding a new engineering job, with quick and easy searching functions, an advice section and top quality recruitment agencies.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering4Professionals</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/eaq/eaq100.html</link>
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      <title>Advice available for skilled overseas job-seekers</title>
      <description>NES can now explain the options available to non-UK applicants following the changes that were made to the UK Highly Skilled Migrant Programme criteria in December 2006.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/nes/nes152.html</link>
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      <title>Engineering competition deadline announced</title>
      <description>Ambitious industrial technicians, electricians and welders in employment, training or education have until the 16th of March 2007 to register for the the 2007 SkillENG competitions.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>UK Skills</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/usk/usk106.html</link>
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      <title>Network Rail audit produces faultless score</title>
      <description>NESTrack has retained its Network Rail Link Up approval and high efficiency logo following an intensive audit.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
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      <title>Unprecedented traffic for recruitment sites</title>
      <description>JobsGroup.net has recorded another record-breaking month in January, with the highest number of unique users to date.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Jobsites post record-breaking traffic levels</title>
      <description>JobsGroup.net, the UK's largest independent network of niche jobsites, attracted 3.6 million unique users during 2006, an increase of 1.1 million - or 44% - on 2005.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JobsGroup.net</category>
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      <title>Eadon adds experience top process team</title>
      <description>Specialist technical, engineering, rail and IT recruitment company, NES has strengthened its Manchester-based team with the appointment of Vicky Eadon.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/nes/nes150.html</link>
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      <title>Campaign targets recruitment of young talent</title>
      <description>The challenge of attracting young talent into industry is being tackled head on by the new Make It campaign, launched by the Manufacturing Institute during National Enterprise Week.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Manufacturing Institute</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/thu/thu134.html</link>
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      <title>Teamwork scores for recruitment consultants</title>
      <description>Consultants from NES have won 5-a-side football tournament in London organised by Recruitment International magazine.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>NES International</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/nes/nes149.html</link>
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