Female graduate job hunters may want to turn their attentions towards a career with Network Rail after the transport firm announced a campaign to attract more female recruits. According to the company, only two per cent of applicants to its apprenticeship scheme over the past five years have been women, while just eight per cent of applicants for the graduate engineering scheme last year were from the fairer sex. The stark reality is that of Network Rail's workforce a mere 12.7 per cent are women, and only 17 per cent of external applications for jobs were from women. A new recruitment drive will primarily focus on trying to improve these figures via the use of advertising, while existing female employees will help to promote the brand at graduate career fairs. Iain Coucher, chief executive of Network Rail, said: "We need more exceptional women to join us at Network Rail. "All of us; industry, educators and government, must work harder to promote the fantastic career opportunities open to both men and women in the rail industry and engineering as a whole. If not Britain will miss out on leading the world in this field." Network Rail currently employs 33,000 staff.
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