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The trades that built oil, gas and energy are the ones data centres are short of
Switching industries is a move sideways, not a step down, and the tickets you already hold come with you.
Thought leadership
Thought leadership
What we've learned hiring and managing the people who do physical work.
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The data centre talent gap won't close with another apprenticeship scheme
The people who could run the world's new data halls already exist, they're working in other trades, and nobody is paying to find out what they know.
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Your next data centre technician is working on a ship
A ship's engineer, an HVAC fitter, a hospital estates technician and a Navy electrician already have most of what a critical environment needs, and two weeks covers the rest.
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Good site workers want to be measured, and the employers who do it will get them
Office staff get reviews, records and promotions while site crews get a day rate and a shrug, and the best of them leave because nobody noticed they were the best.
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“Fungible labour” is a management failure, not a fact about the work
Physical workers only look interchangeable because nobody keeps a record, and employers pay for that blindness as much as workers do.
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Don't make the trades sexy. Make them fair.
People aren't avoiding hard physical work, they're avoiding work with no progression, no record and no respect, and no campaign fixes that.