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14 Reviews Human Resources Review Our people Atkins’ success depends on attracting and retaining the most talented professionals in their respective fields and providing an environment in which they are able to apply their skills on a variety of complex projects. Top 20 Top 50 Best Big Companies to Work For The Sunday Times, 2008 Places Where Women Want to Work The Times, 2007 Top 100 Winner Graduate Employers The Times, 2007 National Graduate Recruitment Awards, Construction Sector Target Magazine, 2007 WS Atkins plc Annual Report 2008
Reviews 15 +24% Increase in headcount over the past 3 years 82% Employee stability index Overview Atkins’ success depends on attracting and retaining the most talented professionals in their respective fields and providing an environment in which they are able to apply their skills on a variety of complex projects. Consequently, being an employer of choice is a must for Atkins. Part of our strength is our ability to meet this challenge for a wide range of professionals including engineers, architects, planners, project managers and surveyors. We measure our performance in doing so in various ways, partly by the collective and individual strengths of the people who decide to develop their careers with us, but also by tracking a number of metrics including staff retention, employee engagement and headcount growth. We also take note of the views of our staff and potential staff expressed via internal and externally commissioned surveys, with the latter resulting in a number of awards. Headcount Within our continuing operations, headcount grew by 1,400 (9%) after allowing for the disposal of Lambert Smith Hampton. The major areas of growth were Design and Engineering Solutions (+620 staff, 14% growth) and the Middle East/India (+750 staff, 44% growth). Headcount in our Rail business remained flat and fell slightly in Highways and Transportation where around 200 staff transferred out at the end of March 2008 with the conclusion of the six-year Northamptonshire County Council contract. Headcount growth depends in part on our ability to recruit quality staff in a challenging market. In recent years, we have transformed our approach to resourcing, recognising that the majority of applications are now made online and increasingly come from all parts of the world. We have installed a web-based recruitment platform and created a dedicated team of professional recruiters. For the first time, more than 50% of applicants applied online either via our website (www.atkinsglobal.com/careers) or through job-boards. This proportion is expected to increase as our recruitment net widens to encompass previously inaccessible talent pools. Our success in recruitment meant that vacancy levels remained broadly static throughout the year and we attracted over 120,000 applications, representing an increase of around 15% on the previous year. Of these, 50% were for positions in the UK and a further 43% for positions in the Middle East/India. We established a dedicated recruitment team in Bangalore, which is servicing the growing number of applications from the Indian market. Applications for graduate training positions rose by almost 45% in the year to over 9,800. This reflected our increased profile in UK universities and the steady increase in the proportion of applicants from across the world. Retention Recruitment success has to be matched by our ability to retain talented professionals. Our principal measure is staff turnover: the level of voluntary resignations. Overall staff turnover increased by 1.6% (from 13.8% to 15.4%) reflecting the high levels of competition for skilled staff. This was in line with our predictions. A related but important measure is the stability of our workforce. This looks at the proportion of staff that have been with Atkins for 12 months or longer, and has remained steady at around 82%. A stability index of over 80% for the UK (our principal employment base) compares well with other leading professional services firms. Likewise, a stability index of over 50% for the Middle East is very good for a business which has grown headcount by over 40% in year. Our experience is that once individuals become embedded in the organisation they will stay for several years. We have improved our ability to monitor feedback from those who leave the organisation via an online survey run on our behalf by an independent organisation. Since the survey was introduced in May 2007, 73% of leavers have provided feedback. This tells us that the key factors affecting retention are clarity regarding career progression and personal growth. Whilst common to most professional services organisations, these are areas where we feel we can improve our performance. On a more positive note, over 80% of leavers would recommend Atkins as an employer and would consider working for the organisation again. Introduction Reviews Governance Financial Statements Investor Information WS Atkins plc Annual Report 2008
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