Jaguar Land Rover opens its doors to female engineering students

Jaguar Land Rover has opened its doors to female students in the U.K. to give them a deep insight into engineering and manufacturing careers. The students aged 15-18 have all applied for Jaguar Land Rover's Advanced and Degree Apprenticeship programmes and secured their places on the course after passing initial HR screening and psychometric tests.

During the four-day Young Women in the Know programme, the students will tour design and manufacturing facilities, network with female employees, spend a day on work placement with a female mentor and brush up on their workability skills, including CV writing and interview practice. The scheme is running at five Jaguar Land Rover Education Business Partnership Centres in the Midlands and Merseyside in the U.K.

Jaguar Land Rover has been running the Young Women in the Know programme at its Solihull manufacturing plant since 2012 and 42 participants have secured apprenticeships at the company. The Young Women in the Know course will ensure the female students have strengthened their knowledge and experience ahead of the Apprenticeship assessment centres early next year. Conditional offers will be made in April 2016.