Five minutes: Charlie Weatherhogg, HR Director - UK&I, Continental Europe and Africa, at AECOM

Charlie Weatherhogg, HR Director – UK&I, Continental Europe and Africa at AECOM, discusses what AECOM is doing for apprentices and graduates. 

What does AECOM offer for apprentices and graduates?

AECOM has invested in graduate and apprentice opportunities for many years – many other companies switched off such talent pipelines during the recession, which, whilst understandable, was a short sighted strategy, as this population is the pipeline to develop into organisational gaps in the future. 

Graduates are taken through a development programme that runs alongside professional accreditations that they will be pursuing, providing a mix of behavioural and technical training. Training is delivered in-house, so tends to be more closely tailored for application in work, as the trainer is a subject matter expert in their own right.