House builder Story Homes has created a recruitment microsite in order to significantly expand its North East and North West teams…

A white paper was recently issued by consultants EC Harris which highlighted construction companies need one million new recruits within the next five years in order to keep up with house building demands. 

In line with this, Story Homes is now on the lookout for around 50 people this year alone in order to significantly expands its North East and North West teams.

“We are investing heavily across all areas of our recruitment at the moment from apprenticeships to employee training – this new microsite is a further extension of that,” commented Helen McGuinness, HR Advisor at Story Homes.

“Story Homes is in a period of rapid growth and as a company we are conscious of the need to employ the best people to support that growth.

“Our new microsite offers future employees the opportunity to discover more about the company, and what we offer our workforce, in addition to displaying current vacancies across the company.

“Graduates can also discover what opportunities are available to them as part of our new graduate training programme.”

The construction industry employs 1.5 full-time workers per home each year, where a colossal 120,000 more are needed in order to achieve the 230,000 units per annum target, according to EC Harris.

However, because of high levels of retirement and growth elsewhere in the industry, the construction sector needs to welcome one million new workers by 2020.