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February 6, 2025 | Policy

JR East seeks foreign workers to fill skills gaps

Inaugural training and employment programme will begin later this month with 25 recruits from Indonesia and Vietnam.

October 6, 2024 | Policy

Indian Railways faces up to a skills crisis

IRJ correspondent Srinand Jha reports on the unintended consequences of the reform of the Indian Railways Management Service in 2019 and the recent u-turn in government policy.

March 10, 2023 | Financial

2022 a good year for Keolis

Revenue up despite recruitment challenge and rising energy costs.

November 11, 2021 | Employment

Waving off rail’s gender gap

With women making up only 21% of its workforce, the European rail sector is looking at ways to close the gap. But as Richard Clinnick reports, simply trying to recruit more female staff requires a lot to change.

December 24, 2020 | Employment

Inspiring rail’s next wave of engineers

Since launching in 2009, British-based education consultancy, Class of Your Own, has provided real-world civil engineering, architecture and construction experience to hundreds of young people. Founder and chief executive Alison Watson tells Oliver Cuenca about the importance of inspiring the next generation.

November 25, 2020 | Employment

British rail industry facing skills shortage - study

THE British railway industry is facing a severe skills shortage over the next five to 10 years, new research from City & Guilds and the National Skills Academy for Rail (NSAR) has found.

December 12, 2019 | Employment

DB to increase number of new staff as 2019 targets exceeded

GERMAN Rail (DB) has announced plans to increase the number of apprentices and dual students hired in 2020 by 300 to 4500 and has allocated €500m towards training across the group, as the company exceeded expectations for hiring new staff in 2019.

January 9, 2019 | Europe

German rail market report highlights continued growth

GERMANY’s railways continued to see growth in terms of revenue and traffic during 2017 according to the latest annual Railway Market Analysis from the Federal Networks Agency (BNetzA), which was published this week.

December 27, 2018 | Employment

Recruiting the next generation of railway professionals

The railway industry is racing to replace a generation of technicians and engineers approaching retirement. But with strong competition from all sectors for a limited talent pool, companies from across the industry are engaging in innovative recruitment methods, as Kevin Smith discovers.

June 13, 2017 | Africa

ONCF and SNCF aim to bridge the skills gap

AS Morocco eagerly awaits the opening of its inaugural high-speed line between Casablanca and Tangiers in the summer of 2018, the country is already reaping the benefits of a new railway training provider.

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