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IMI Skills Competition finalists announced for 2024
- 11/07/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The IMI Skills Competition finalists for 2024 have been announced. National qualifying events took place throughout May and June in four categories, Body Repair, Refinishing, Light Vehicle Technology, and Heavy Vehicle Technology, with the 24 finalists progressing to compete in the national finals from 18-22 [...] -
Industry responds to Labour victory
- 05/07/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
The automotive sector has been responding to the Labour Party’s resounding victory at the UK General Election, and urged it to take a number of immediate steps now it is in government. These include tackling the pothole crisis, reducing the cost of fuel at the pumps, the ongoing skills crisis, and moving to [...] -
IMI reports fall in automotive vacancies
- 26/06/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Vacancies in the UK automotive industry have fallen for the second month in a row. According to the Institute of the Motor Industry's (IMI) Vacancy Rate Tracker job vacancies per 100 employees fell from 4.1 to 3.7 in May. This is based on figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). However, despite [...] -
IMI’s ‘There’s More to Motor’ campaign moves to phase two
- 10/06/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The IMI is launching the second phase of its ‘There’s More to Motor’ digital campaign, launched to encourage more people into the industry. As the campaign moves to the next stage, the IMI is now introducing a wide range of ‘real voices’ from the sector, with colleagues from Toyota GB sharing their [...] -
IMI unveils EDI webinar series
- 07/06/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Institute of the Motor Industry is turning its attention to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion with a series of free webinars in the coming months. Delivered by independent experts, the sessions are being held to help the industry address key issues around EDI. The one-hour webinars will be delivered free to [...] -
IMI issues industry ‘wish-list’ for new government
- 05/06/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Institute of the Motor Industry has published a new ‘wish-list’ for the next government to protect the automotive industry and ensure it continues to deliver valuable benefits for the UK economy. The sector employs around 886,000 people and generates upwards of £37bn for the economy every year. However, [...] -
Automotive still tops job vacancies table despite slight drop
- 30/05/2024
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
There has been a slight drop in the number of vacancies across the wider automotive industry - from 23,000 to 22,000 - but motor trades are holding firm against all other industries to retain top spot on the job vacancies table. For every 100 motor trades employees there are four vacancies, down from 4.1 last [...] -
RWC and Talent Connect announce new recruitment partnership
- 22/05/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
RWC Training and Talent Connect have announced a new partnership to deliver a full end-to-end recruitment solution to businesses in the automotive aftermarket. The partnership will provide talent recruitment services as well as training to new starters and existing employees, a full skills consultation, and [...] -
IMI unveils new training model
- 02/05/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The IMI has launched a new learning initiative aimed at tackling the shortfall of 23,000 skilled workers in the automotive sector. The Further Education Lecturer Reservists (FELR) initiative was discussed at a roundtable held at Westminster, hosted by Chris Clarkson MP and chaired by Minister for Skills, [...] -
Gender gap widens despite diversity steps
- 23/04/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Diversity within automotive is much improved, but there is still further to go. That is the verdict of the most recent report published by the IMI’s Diversity Task Force, Driving Towards Inclusion. It has revealed that the proportion of automotive employees with a disability has increased by 2.2% since the [...]