Career opportunity: some of Jaguar Land Rover’s female students Girls in focus at Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover is opening its doors to female students to give them a deep insight into engineering and manufacturing careers. The students, aged 15 to 18, have all applied for Jaguar Land Rover’s
Advanced and Degree Apprenticeship programmes and secured their places on the course after passing initial HR screening and psychometric tests. During the four-day ‘Young Women in the Know’ programme, the
students will tour design and manufacturing facilities, network with female employees, spend a day on work placement with a female mentor and brush up their workability skills including CV writing and interview practice. The scheme is running at five Jaguar Land Rover Education Business
Partnership Centres in the Midlands and Merseyside. Nick Rogers, executive director, product engineering at Jaguar Land
Rover, said: “Jaguar Land Rover has grown tremendously, and to continue to pioneer new products and focus on engineering excellence, we are passionate to welcome diverse talent from across the globe. “The whole automotive industry is facing a shortfall of engineers, and for
Jaguar Land Rover, encouraging more girls and women to consider a career in engineering is a vital part of addressing this shortage.
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February 2017 CHAMBERLINK 61 “We’ve seen our female engineering workforce grow from nine per cent
to 11 per cent over the past four years due to our initiatives like Young Women in the Know and our Women in Engineering undergraduate sponsorship scheme, and it’s great to see these programmes are helping us attract more female talent to our business.” Jaguar Land Rover has been running the ‘Young Women in the Know’
programme at its Solihull manufacturing plant since 2012 and 42 participants have secured apprenticeships at the company. Chloe McNally, a Jaguar Land Rover Advanced Apprentice based in
Special Vehicle Operations, said: “I took part in the 'Young Women in the Know' course in 2013. I thought manufacturing plants would not be suitable for females but the reality was very different and it was great to meet so many women from across the business and hear about their careers. “The course persuaded me to change my career plan from civil engineering to manufacturing. I joined the company on my apprenticeship four years ago and would thoroughly recommend it. As well as college studies, I work on bespoke premium vehicles for customers across the globe and every day brings a different challenge.”
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