As part of Just Engineers on-going commitment to provide job seekers seeking a new role across engineering as quickly and easily as possible, we are delighted to confirm that we are partnering with the Institute of Diagnostic Engineers.

This partnership will enable the IDE Membership to search for the latest relevant vacancies directly from Just Engineers on the IDE website. With the membership figures in excess of 1300, with 50% of which holding Fellowship status, the IDE receives worldwide recognition with growing numbers joining from outside its core UK base.

With a diverse membership at every level of responsibility, the majority of industry sectors are also represented. Managing Directors, Consultants, Senior Engineering Managers, Scientific Officers the academic fraternity and senior staff in the armed forces all contribute to the knowledge base of the Institution.

Keep an eye here on Blueprint for future developments in this partnership.

A|D|S takes headline industry partner role at an expanded Aero Engineering 2011 event, accelerating UK Aerospace engineering and supply chain development.

A|D|S, the trade organisation advancing the UK Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space industries is one of the headline industry organisations strategically contributing to and supporting this year’s expanded Aero Engineering 2011 Supply Chain Fair and Industry Briefing, taking place as part of the 2011 Advanced Engineering UK group of events at the NEC, Birmingham on 9 – 10 November 2011 which, together with co-locating events, will host some 350+ exhibitors and 50+ hours of parallel industry presentations and integrated B2B networking opportunities across the advanced engineering and technology sectors.

As the UK’s only dedicated trade event integrating the supply chains for the hugely important UK aerospace structures, powerplant and systems industries – the 2nd largest national aerospace industry in the world, the Aero Engineering event provides an increasingly strategic opportunity for focused technical and commercial dialogue between each level of the UK supply chain – OEM’s, Tier 1-3 sub-assembly, aerostructures, components and systems suppliers, accredited subcontractors and supporting equipment, tooling and technical services providers.

With the volume of exhibitors doubling for 2011, the show provides its largest showcase yet of capability providers supporting the life cycle of specialist aerospace engineering requirements – from Design/R&D programmes through to the Manufacturing, Integration and Assembly environment, and onto aftermarket MRO. With pre-registered visitor numbers already running at three times the level of last year’s event, organisers UK Tech Events predict a record attendance from every quarter of the UK aerospace sector plus increasing interest from overseas customer groups.

Graham Chisnall, Managing Director of Aerospace and Operations at A|D|S comments:

“A|D|S is pleased to have stepped up its participation at the 2011 Aero Engineering event in Birmingham. The UK’s £23.1 billion aerospace industry, the 2nd largest in the world and number 1 in Europe, is built upon R&D, technology and the engineering excellence of the entire supply chain. Because of our work to deliver this firm foundation for the future, A|D|S are delighted to support Aero Engineering 2011, which provides a forum for all engineers to grow their business and learn about the latest technologies.”

Aero Engineering 2011 provides daily visitors with an expanded integrated programme of show-floor presentations from leading technology and industry organisations – with scheduled in-hall sessions including CAE Simulation and Verification, Digital Manufacturing, Test and Inspection, Aero Composites, NADCAP and Process Performance and Improvement. Daily SC21 (21st Century Supply Chains) update sessions, hosted by A|D|S, serve to chart the progress of the key programme accelerating the competitiveness of the UK’s aerospace and defence industry.

Hosted as part of the rapidly growing ‘Advanced Engineering UK – group of events’ annual portfolio, the event provides not only a focused business and technology transfer environment up and down the aerospace engineering supply chain but vast opportunities to explore exhibitors and dip into technical presentations in adjacent and overlapping sectors through the parallel and integrated events – including The Composites Engineering Show 2011, Energy Engineering 2011 UK Business Briefing and Supply Chain Showcase plus the UK Plastic Electronics Show, all collectively representing priority sectors of the UK’s high value technology and engineering capability, fundamental to UK government targets to rebalance the economy in favour of advanced engineering and manufacturing.

Optional ‘delegate’ programmes provide attendees with access to parallel industry Business Briefings offering attending SME’s essential ‘big picture’ forward vision of the developing business and technical landscape within UK aerospace and wider international programmes. They provide essential programme insight and business, technical and skills intelligence – assisting companies to create, modify or confirm their own business strategies from the most informed position.

Dr Neil Calder, Congress and Forums Director for the 2011 show portfolio comments

“If knowledge is power then the availability of these short, sharp and incisive 3-5 year horizon presentations provide supply chain participants, and particularly SME’s, with absolutely vital foresight and intelligence which to plan future plant, capability and skills investment, to pursue breaking UK and International programme opportunities and generally obtain wisdom on the bigger picture of the landscape in which to move their businesses forward”

Online pre-registration is now live – visit www.aeroengineeringshow.com – one visitor badge covers FREE entry to the exhibits hall and Open Forums for all four co locating events. A delegate badge, starting from just £75, allows access to all four parallel industry briefings. For information on the full ‘Advanced Engineering UK 2011 group of events’ visit www.advancedengineeringuk.com

Here at JustEngineers, we’re committed to ensuring that both our candidate and recruiter experiences are as fast and efficient as possible. We believe that by providing job seekers with the best possible experience, you’ll ultimately get the best possible experience with us too.

By improving the detail around your vacancy, search results become more relevant and interesting to candidates and as a result, you are more likely to receive high-quality applications to your vacancies.  

The three most important factors for job seekers when looking for a new role are: job title, salary and location. These three factors will determine whether you grab their interest and proceed to the job description, or whether they move onto the next vacancy in the list.

Here are some useful best-practice vacancy guidelines on how to get the most out of your inventory on JustEngineers:

Job Title

Keep it simple – job seekers prefer to see just one job title, removing any confusion about the role you’re offering. Use the common description for the role to ensure you capture a wider audience and avoid any in-house terminology.  If you have the option of different job titles, why not try posting the vacancy under each title and see what works best for you.

 Look at the job title you have entered, and ask yourself. 

 “If I was a candidates searching for this role, is the job title what I would use to search for on a jobsite?”

 Location

 Most candidates not willing to relocate will have an idea of how far a distance they are prepared to travel to work.  We advise that where possible vacancies should state the single location where the role is based. Our intelligent search technology will automatically work out nearby locations and counties, so you don’t need to list them.

Using multiple locations in a vacancy can put off potential applicants, as they don’t know whether they would be working in one or all of the locations.

Salary

This is of vital importance to candidates.  Any applicant need to have a good idea of what the role is offering before they can make the decision to apply. We therefore recommend that any vacancy you place always states the salary.

If the salary isn’t exact, give the salary bracket (e.g. £25,000 – £35,000), rather than stating ‘competitive’ or ‘negotiable’.

Job Description

This is where you need to hone your skills as an advertising copywriter as this is your initial opportunity to sell your vacancy to potential applicants. 

Aim for a job descriptions of between 200 and 500 words, this would give a good indication of what the role entails, the skills and experience sought by you, the salary and benefits associated with the role, and what the employer culture is like.

Ensure you use industry and job relevant keywords within the body of the description which will help improve the vacancy appear within the search results pages. The objective is to build trust, and remove doubt which will encourage the candidates to apply to your roles.

Highly-targeted examples

Job title: Mechanical Engineer

• Location: Southampton
• Salary: £30,000 – £50,000 pa + bens

with the targeted examples, job seekers know exactly what the job is offering and this improves their experience on JustEngineers and should further increase the relevancy of applications that you receive.

Some less successful examples

 Job title: Manufacturing Manager / Product Development Manager

Which job am I applying for? Are these both jobs available?

Salary: Excellent salary, Negotiable, Competitive, bonus

This doesn’t give the jobseeker enough information

Location: The City, London, South East, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Reading, Slough, Middlesex, Essex, Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, Epsom, Kent, Watford, Berkshire, Bedfordshire

Where would I be working? Would you apply for this job?

Look at your job description from a candidate’s perspective – what would you be looking for to persuade you to apply for a new job?

Make sure you keep your ads simple and informative and watch the number of qu

www.justengineers.net are working in partnership with The Advanced Engineers Exhibition, which is set to take place 9-10 November, NEC, Birmingham UK

Integrated within Hall 20 at the NEC, Birmingham, the Advanced Engineering UK 2011 group of events brings together some of the UK’s highest-growth advanced engineering sectors through four co-locating shows. Each provides a business networking technology & innovation agenda not only within its own supply chain and customer groups, but across those of the co-locating events.

www.advancedengineeringuk.com

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