Quickline Communications aims to allocate at least 5% of its workforce to formal apprenticeships or graduate development schemes in the next five years.
Thu, 10/02/2022 - 14:38
Openreach will create and fill over 4,000 jobs during 2022 including 3,000 apprenticeships. This represents the company’s largest ever recruitment drive.
The new employees will be based throughout the UK working to build and connect customers to the company’s full fibre broadband network.
Clive Selley, CEO, Openreach, said: “We have been building training schools all over the country where we can teach people the skills and techniques they need for a long career in engineering.”
Openreach has been working to make its recruitment pool more diverse and last year attracted 600 women into trainee engineering roles, more than double the previous year.
Selley added: “We want to reflect the communities we serve and give opportunities to people from all backgrounds, so I’m encouraged that we’ve recruited more women and minority groups this year compared to last year, but we’ve got much more to do in an industry that hasn’t been very diverse historically.”
