Several experts have agreed that the utilities sector is facing a "chronic" shortage of skills and is having difficulties attracting women applicants. Personneltoday.com approached three major utilities companies to see how they were coping with a dearth of suitable candidates. Yorkshire Water said in addition to a two-year graduate programme it has launched a campaign aimed at recruiting from a more diverse pool of candidates. A spokesperson for RWE npower told Personneltoday.com that recruitment and retention were not major problems for the company but that it struggled to diversify a predominantly male workforce. National Grid said it consciously targets female engineering students and has profiles of women already working with the company on its website. Catherine Hamilton, National Grid's inclusion and diversity manager, said: "National Grid is attracting good engineers, many of whom are female. In fact, 25 per cent of graduate engineers are now female and 32 per cent of graduates overall are female." According to the Times' list of the top 50 places women want to work, female potential employees seek roles where their job satisfaction will be high and their career can develop, rather than solely considering money or location.
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