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Contractors fill director roles from their own lane. The supply side runs bigger P&Ls on thinner margins, and almost never gets the call.

Nobody remembers cutting the trainees in 2009. Ten years on, it is who is missing from every senior shortlist. The long read on downturns and the people we never hired.

Construction cuts trainees first in every downturn. The gap shows up a decade later in the senior seats nobody can fill. A hypothesis, and how we'll test it.

Why the first ten years and the last ten need different front doors to the same industry.

The QSs who wait to feel fully ready before applying move a year later than the ones who don't, and it shows over a career.

A developer and a law firm say design and build has lost its edge on complex schemes. The contract argument is sound. The harder question is whether clients have the people to carry the risk that comes home.

Mace posted 45 new senior roles this week, over half of all new senior vacancies added across UK construction, mostly associate director grade.

Most growing contractors have a chair or a non-executive. Far fewer have anyone whose actual job is to challenge them.

Early careers teams are drowning in requests they cannot answer, while the people the industry says it wants never reach the door.