The Recruitment Zone 2024 draws upon our previous experience in producing an effective in-person recruitment event format and building our network of sourced candidates.
How does it work?
At Solar & Storage Live, Recruitment Zone is a dedicated feature for actively hiring businesses. Within the zone, businesses with live job vacancies can meet a flow of sourced talent for one-to-one in-person meetings in personal booths.
The aim is to quickly and effectively meet, introduce, identify and shortlist excellent candidates, then arrange more formal interviews for the advertised role after the event toward making new hires to begin a career at your business.
At each of our previous shows, we have attracted over 200 new job candidates across just two or three days, providing an effective way to fast-track growing your pipeline of shortlisted talent to join interview processes.
How do we source talent?
Since its inception, Solar Energy UK employs its platform and networks to feed talent into Recruitment Zone. We work with the Department for Work and Pensions, government-backed organisations for military service leavers and various cross-sector partners of working professionals.
Our industry is entering a significant period of growth. Many businesses are experiencing difficulties filling vacancies. Recruitment Zone is a real-world, tangible solution, capable of instantly alleviating some of these difficulties by attracting new pools of job candidates into the solar and storage industry. Recruitment Zone happens just twice per year. If you are experiencing growth and have job vacancies, sourcing candidates via Recruitment Zone can be a cost-effective way to bolster your recruitment strategy and needs.
How effective is it?
In partnership with Solar & Storage Live, Solar Energy UK is producing our third recruitment feature. Since its inception, we have significantly upgraded the format, making for a more efficient structure to facilitate a high number of uninterrupted, one-to-one meetings for identifying and shortlisting suitable job candidates interested in a career in your business. We continue to grow our network of sourced job candidates to proactively match them with your current job vacancies, whom we attract through a strategic marketing campaign with our partners.
Don’t just take our word for it. Here are endorsements from hiring businesses from previous Recruitment Zone events:
RWE Solar and Storage UK was delighted to have a presence at the recruitment zone of the London event in April and will again be represented at the Birmingham event in September. We were very impressed with the organisation and overall attendance at the event, and we had a steady flow of very good candidates who were interested in a fresh start in the industry. We saw a number of candidates who were instantly suitable for our business and have been in touch with them regarding ongoing opportunities. From an economic sense it is almost a no-brainer to us as just one hire from the day more than makes up for the outlay of having a presence in the recruitment zone. Would highly recommend.
Lee Harbin, Talent Acquisition Manager (UK and Ireland)
RWE Renewables Europe and Australia
Recruitment Zone at Solar & Storage Live is a fantastic concept and one that I’m delighted to support. In order for us to reach our ambitious renewable targets as a nation, it’s imperative that we attract talent into our industry. SSE Renewables sponsored the inaugural zone at the flagship Birmingham event in 2023 and it’s great to see the team build on that success and come back even bigger and better.
Chris Stewart, Brand and Marketing
SSE Renewables
We have exhibited twice at Recruitment Zone at Solar & Storage Live, both times were a great success. Attending these events has been highly beneficial, due to them being well-organised which attracts a diverse range of candidates. These events have provided us with opportunities to meet a wide array of individuals interested in entering the solar industry. Exhibiting at the Recruitment Zone has allowed us to network effectively, broaden our talent pool and work towards introducing more people to the solar industry.
Sarah Cooper, HR Manager
British Solar Renewables
📩 Contact
To enquire please contact:
Sturge Mazzocchi | Head of Solar Careers Programme | smazzocchi@solarenergyuk.org
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