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GROW YOUR OWN

ENGINEERS AND

TECHNICIANS

Why it’s in your interests as an employer for your

young people to achieve professional registration

By Peter Amos, IGEM Young Person Network develop your young technicians and
Immediate Past Chair 2017-18 engineers. Three of these are:
professional registration, the Young
Persons Network (YPN), and the
et’s be honest, professional favour of supporting the professional annual Young Persons Paper
development can take development of employees that is Competition. I’ll now explain why each
money, effort or time away win-win for employer and employee. of these offerings is just as beneficial
from the day job for your By supporting and training your to the young person’s employer as it
L employees. Sometimes it staff, you are demonstrating a is to the individual.
might even take all three. Like any commitment to them, a commitment Firstly, having staff recognised as
other investment your company that they are likely to return in both professionally registered is attractive
makes, there is a risk that you won’t effort and image. A company with a to your customers. It gives both you
get a return. But when done correctly, reputation for training and and them the confidence that your
this investment in your workforce development is much more likely to engineers and technicians are
pays dividends that will lead to the attract engineers and managers that competent and will act professionally
continued success of your business. want to develop and contribute. and independently in developing new
There are excellent arguments in IGEM offers many valuable ways to solutions, solving problems and

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