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In recent years, UGL has won an unprecedented amount of new work, and with an ever-increasing amount of infrastructure opportunities across Australia in the foreseeable future, we know that attracting and retaining the best talent will be the key to our success.

In late 2018, UGL launched its Employee Value Proposition (EVP) – which promotes UGL as a great place to work and showcases the benefits of working at UGL with both existing and potential employees. UGL’s EVP is aligned to the three pillars of Care, Challenge and Career.

UGL’s EVP was created with input from its employees and includes a tagline, encouraging potential recruits to #unitewiththeverybest. The EVP is championed by the UGL Ambassador Network which was established with the EVP launch and includes a group of around 70 passionate UGL employees - from functional and operational teams, including graduates through to senior leaders.

Industry networking event with CIMIC and UNSW.

In the 12 months since the EVP was established, the team has achieved a lot, including:

  • UGL has increased its LinkedIn followers by 25%, and in November reached 100,000 followers thanks in a large part to the increased engagement driven by the Ambassadors.
  • Of the approximately 2,000 new hires into UGL in the past 12 months, 851 are LinkedIn members, and around 700 of these new hires were influenced by UGL’s new EVP which is visible through the ‘Life’ and ‘Work With Us’ pages on LinkedIn, Seek advertisements, the UGL website and other channels.
  • UGL increased retention rates of staff across all levels and divisions.
  • UGL’s Glassdoor rating increased from 2.6 to more than 3.8.
  • Fundraising and Charity Awareness has risen with several campaigns run this year by Ambassadors. These campaigns encouraged other employees to do the same, allowing UGL to showcase our commitment to the communities in which they operate.
  • Ambassadors have represented UGL at several industry events and participated in mentoring programs.

And finally, the highlight of the year for our UGL Ambassador Network is the Ambassador State Challenge. The challenge asked our Ambassadors to create state-based teams across corporate and all UGL divisions to tap into their creative side and come up with ideas for brand awareness LinkedIn campaigns and UGL merchandise.

All teams came up with a range of great ideas. Some of these ideas will be brought to life soon. Of the State Challenge, Oliver Torkel, UGL Commercial Manager and Ambassador said:

“The challenge encouraged teams to work together, that otherwise wouldn’t. I absolutely loved working with colleagues in other parts of the business to develop ideas for the challenge, to implement them and to make a video to present them. I can say without fear of exaggeration that I’ve never had more fun at work. We all enjoyed the challenge so much, plenty of people asked questions like ‘That was great, what are we doing next?’”

UGL’s Western Australia team state challenge idea.

UGL’s Queensland team state challenge idea.

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