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Facilities Management is evolving into one of the built environment's most strategic disciplines. In this episode, Cobalt Recruitment's Head of Facilities Management, Chris Sycamore, discusses recruitment trends, skills shortages, salary expectations, career advice and what employers need to do to attract and retain the industry's best talent.

At our latest Cobalt Conversations event, we explored the concept of ‘widening the gate’ to improve the recruitment part of a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) strategy – not the idea of offering handouts of interviews or box-ticking based on characteristics, but of looking at recruitment and onboarding processes to make sure that the sector can develop, access and retain diverse talent within it. This will ultimately make our workplaces better, fuelled with greater creativity and productivity from a broader pool of talent.