Future employability: IMI to represent motor industry in Parliament

The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has been appointed as an Advisory Board member to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Future of Employability. The appointment places the IMI in the privileged position of participating in policy dialogue around government strategy on attracting people to work in the essential sectors that help drive the UK economy, including the motor industry.

“Like many sectors, we are facing a huge skills challenge and recruitment crisis against headwinds of an aging population and economic instability”, explained Hayley Pells, Policy Manager at the IMI. “It shouldn’t, therefore, be underestimated how significant our appointment to the APPG is. It is an important development enabling the IMI to represent the automotive sector with direct access to cross house, cross-party high-level discussion on all aspects impacting employability in the future.”

The APPG on the Future of Employability aims to build consensus on potential policy reforms regarding the future of employability, from creating the right framework for retraining and upskilling, to the impact of technology on the way people work. Both are subjects close to the hearts and minds of those involved in the automotive sector as it seeks to fill traditional roles such as vehicle technicians, as well as address the abundance of growing high-tech career opportunities not normally associated with the sector, including IT architects and android developers.