g2 Recruitment News in less than 5 Minutes - 24th January 2025

UK & EU Engineering

Here, our Marketing team gathers information company-wide, giving you recruitment insights from our industry experts, market trends from our dedicated business development team, and internal updates that keep you in the g2 Recruitment loop.

Consultant's Mention

This section includes professional insights?from our specialist consultants offering their perspectives on what is influencing recruitment demand in their sector.

Team Automation is dedicated to supporting the Special Machinery and Automotive industry in the DACH region by providing highly skilled Automation Engineers. Our focus is on delivering talent that excels in designing, programming, and commissioning advanced automation systems tailored to the unique needs of our clients.

Stepping into 2025, we are seeing a significant rise in demand across the DACH market, fueled by manufacturers increasing reliance on customised automation solutions.

This trend reflects the growing need for precision, flexibility, and efficiency in specialised production environments, as well as the push toward adopting cutting-edge technologies to remain competitive.

Several factors are driving this positive momentum. The new year brings fresh budgets and renewed confidence in investment strategies, while the economic climate in the DACH regions shows stability. Furthermore, the special machinery sector is embracing innovations like AI-enhanced robotics, advanced PLC systems, and predictive maintenance tools, signaling a major shift toward smarter, more agile production capabilities.

Our team's expertise goes beyond sourcing Automation Engineers. We also provide talent for electrical and mechanical commissioning, robotic integration, and software development, ensuring every phase of the automation department is handled seamlessly. This end-to-end support enables our clients to execute projects efficiently while achieving optimal outcomes.

In 2025, we foresee the special machinery industry continuing to adopt increasingly sophisticated automation technologies, with a growing emphasis on data-driven processes and innovative system designs. Team Automation is excited to play a critical role in this transformation, helping our clients and candidates succeed in this dynamic market.

Elvis Krasniqi - Automation & Engineering Consultant

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Market Disruptors

This section offers insight from our Business Development team about market disruptors?that are shaking up the world of Recruitment.

Mega Projects: How can you reduce how they impact your Recruitment?

With the rise of "Giga-Factories" and huge multi-billion pound investments by the Tech giants, the inflated rates and sheer scale of the resources needed to deliver these projects can have a disastrous impact in already candidate short areas, acting like a "talent sponge". The knock-on effect is far-reaching, with neighbouring projects that require the same skills ending up in a bidding war over an ever-decreasing talent pool. This raises the question: How do you best protect yourself from this when you need the same people?

Let's consider the kind of skills that will be most affected by this kind of disruptor: Highly skilled Engineering and Tech workers, usually in "hands-on" roles where their specialist knowledge means they are fundamental to the progress and completion of key areas of the project. A good example of this would be Automation, which is at the heart of every manufacturing facility, both operationally and technologically. With each vendor using their own bespoke software, unfortunately, not every Automation Engineer can work on every automation project. They must be able to work with the correct software and equipment, and here lies the problem. However, the only solution is to do something different from your competition.

With big projects come big budgets, but also a real risk of considerable financial mismanagement. This often means that they are procurement leads, with the core focus being cost management, and this includes Recruitment. The issue here though, is that the large recruitment firms that tend to do best from a procurement perspective, are all losing market share Share price drops for UK recruitment companies, Hays profit warning - IG UK, because the model is too inflexible to service the clients varied and specialised requirements. This puts a huge, costly strain on the disciplines and departments that desperately need workers.

One way to remedy this is to incorporate a more flexible, people-led approach to hiring for technical roles. This allows ownership of the recruitment process, selection of suppliers, and ultimately, the final say to sit with the project and technical leads. By allowing them to access more boutique, specialist recruiters such as consultants from g2 Recruitment, you will be giving yourself the best chance of sourcing key workers. Having built up a network over 20 years in European Tech and Engineering, even the most specialist and in-demand vacancies have been filled for Blue Chip clients delivering "giga-projects" all the way down to the family-run business operating right under their nose.

You may or may not end up paying a bit more, but at least you aren't paying twice as much to a consultancy or even to a vendor, who may well be using a recruiter!

Henry Bennett - Sales Operation Manager

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