Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships can help businesses by offering a route to harness fresh new talent. UK businesses consider skills shortages and recruitment difficulties a bigger threat to performance than soaring oil prices and declining consumer spending, and more than a quarter of these rate this form of vocational training higher than any other qualification.

An Apprenticeship includes the following components:

A minimum of 16 hours per week paid employment.
A knowledge based element.
A competency based element.
Transferable or “key skills”.
A module on employment rights and responsibilities.

Motivate your workforce

Apprentices tend to be eager, motivated, flexible and loyal to the company that invested in them. Remember, an apprentice is with you because they want to be – they have made an active choice to learn on the job and a commitment to a specific career.

The facts speak for themselves

81% of consumers favour using a company which takes on apprentices. 

88% of employers who employ apprentices believe that Apprenticeships lead to a more motivated and satisfied workforce.

83% of employers who employ apprentices rely on their Apprenticeships programme to provide the skilled workers that they need for the future.

One in five employers are hiring more apprentices to help them through the tough economic climate.

For more information on a specific apprenticeship programme select the Apprenticeship tab at the top of the page or for further facts please read the factsheet