“It’s a good time to be a candidate and a very good time to be a very good candidate,” said one of the experts in this year’s look at the employment outlook for electronics engineers. With UK electronics graduates in increasingly short supply, a positive industry outlook and the concentration on certain technologies in the UK – notably, emerging wireless technologies – and you have the conditions for a holy grail type quest for those candidates with the magic four to five years of the right experience.
Our five recruitment experts – Anne Claydon, HR manager at picoChip; Martin Constantinides, director of specialist recruitment consultancy ECM Selection; Richard Traherne, wireless business unit manager for Cambridge Consultants; John Spencer, managing director of STS Recruitment; and Tim Freeman, technology recruitment advisor within Philips Electronics’ EMEA recruitment services division – agreed the industry is looking to hire more people this year.
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