WTS London

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WTS London ICE Delivering Diversity Conference
2008

• Lynn Tomkins
• Director of UK Operations, Semta

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UK Employer Base
Employees
Employers
Company Size
1,394,491
76,480
66
50
6
5 - 49
28
33
lt 5
6
61

• 74 billion per annum (10 total of UK GDP)
• One third of total UK exports

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Sector Overview

• Semta represent the following sectors
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Electronic
• Maintenance
• Mechanical
• Science, Nanotechnology and Biotechnology
• Electrical
• Ship/Boat Building and Repair
• Metals
• Engineering Metal Products
• Mathematics

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Semta Group
Objective

• To support UK business achieve global
  competitiveness by improving skills

Vision

• The right people with the right skills at the
  right time

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Sector Diversity

• 42 of the UK Engineering workforce is aged 45-64
  compared with 38 for all sectors in the UK
• Over the period 2008-2014, there is a net
  requirement for over 230,000 new employees (over
  38,000 per annum) to replace those who leave
  their jobs because of retirement or other reasons
• Only 9 of the UK Engineering workforce is aged
  16-24 compared to 14 for all sectors in the UK
• Within the UK Bioscience sector 31 of the
  workforce is aged 45
• There were over 17,000 reported hard-to-fill
  vacancies for UK Engineering in 2007

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Women

• Across all sectors of the economy women make up
  nearly 50 of the workforce, in UK Engineering is
  it is only 19
• Women make up 48 of the workforce in the
  Bioscience sector
• Women only make up 17 of management roles within
  UK Engineering compared to 35 across all sectors
  of the UK economy
• Women only make up 7 of professional roles
  within UK Engineering compared to 43 across all
  sectors of the UK economy
• Within the Bioscience sector, just over a third
  of senior scientists and senior researchers are
  women and this figure drops to 27 among science
  managers.

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Ethnic Minorities/Disability

• Ethnic Minorities
• Approximately 4 of the UK Engineering workforce
  is from an ethnic minority compared to 6 for all
  sectors in the UK
• About 31 of the Engineering workforce in London
  is from an ethnic minority
• 24 of London residents working within the
  Engineering industry were from a Black or
  Minority Ethnic group, with the majority (14.1)
  being Asian or Asian British and 6.9 Black or
  Black British
• Disability
• 7 of the UK Engineering industry workforce had a
  limiting long-term illness.

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Women Work Project

• Aim To help employers understand the barriers to
  women in
• their organisations and to support their skills
  development.
• Target 400 Individual Career Development Plans
• 2 Networking Events
  to share best practice
• 10 Women Ambassadors
  to promote careers
• Actual 227 Individual Career Development Plans
• 2 Networking Events
  to share best practice
• 2 Women Ambassadors
  to promote careers

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Women Work Project

• Issues/Barriers Encountered
• Employers
• Companies were reluctant to get involved as they
  thought it would have an effect on their male
  workforce
• What was different about this programme to others
• Women Participants
• Low self esteem
• Childcare facilities/flexible working
• Family friendly employer
• Lack of Womens Network
• Ways of addressing issues with employers

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Women Work Project

• To thrive in the face of global competition, we
• have to attract and develop and keep the very
• best talent so this initiative sets out to
  benefit
• companies by enabling them to employ women
• more successfully, and to benefit women by
• helping them to achieve their full potential
• Margaret Gildea OBE
• Executive Vice President of Human Resources
• Operations, Skill Capability, Rolls-Royce plc

You will be pleased to hear that as a result of
the workshop I thought about my future in a more
constructive way and I was motivated to apply for
and have accepted a job promotion within the
company
Female Participant of the Project
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Key Lessons / Future Projects

• Key Lessons
• Facilitate Cross Company Networking
• In-House Mentoring
• External Coaching
• Offer grants to address training needs identified
  during the programme
• Future Projects
• Diversity Strategy
• Women and Work Phase 2
• Sector Compact