Friday May 13, 2011 at 12:54pm
We recently read an interesting article by Louisa Peacock from the Daily Telegraph. She was looking into whether updating your software skills would guarantee a job and kicked off the debate with an email from a DT reader called peter: ‘I am a computer aided design (CAD) draughtsman with 15 years experience in engineering. I lost my job more than a year ago and want to update my software skills to get a new role. What do you suggest?’ At Solid People we’re often asked whether u....
Thursday April 21, 2011 at 9:21am
So its crunch time for many final year engineering and design students...your dissertations are due in and the revision schedules are in place. A challenging and nervy time for many, however before you know it, university life will be over and your next challenge will be to find a job. For this reason we wanted share some useful tips and tricks you can use when searching for your first CAD job.If you're like me you went to university to give yourself then best possible chance of being succe....
Tuesday April 19, 2011 at 9:55am
Hello and welcome to our first blog... Well, the past few months have been busy here at Solid People HQ. We certainly get the feeling industry is picking up, with our clients gaining confidence in the economic recovery and therefore starting to invest in people again. This has been great to see...not only for us, but for our clients and our candidates, so long may it continue. As a result of all this activity we thought it about time Solid People had a blog! The idea is to share our CAD rec....