Apprenticeship service
81% of businesses said that employing apprentices generated
higher overall productivity for their company.
Learning & Skills Council (Populus, January
2009)
No matter how large or small your
organisation, apprentices will provide you with the highly skilled
employees and long term prospects you need to develop your
business. Even in difficult economic times likes these
apprenticeships are a vital way of improving the skills of staff
and generating a committed workforce. When times are tough,
competition is even tougher, and that’s when a well-trained extra
pair of hands could make a real difference to your chances of
success.
Apprenticeships are good for business
because:
Apprenticeships deliver real returns to your
bottom line. In a recent survey1, the majority of
employers said that apprenticeships helped them to improve
productivity and to be more competitive. They also said that
training apprentices is more cost effective than hiring skilled
staff, leading to lower overall training and recruitment costs.
Apprenticeships deliver skills designed around
your business needs. They also help you develop the specialist
skills you need to keep pace with the latest technology and working
practices in your sector. In a recent survey employers said they
relied on apprenticeship programmes to provide the skilled workers
they need for the future1.
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.
At Bedford College Training Services, we have
over 20 years’ experience of placing apprentices in businesses.
We do this by following our unique apprenticeship training development model,
which enables us to work closely with you to identify the
apprenticeship framework which is best for your business, find
suitable candidates and measure the impact the apprenticeship has
on your organisation to show real business benefits.
We will:
- help you decide which apprenticeship programme is right for
your business
- explain the way that apprenticeships might work for you
- identify if funding is available
- support your existing staff into apprenticeships or help you to
recruit an apprentice through
apprenticeship vacancies
on-line
- agree a training plan with you and your apprentice
- deliver the training and provide on-going support to you and
your apprentice, with regular feedback
- measure the impact an apprentice has had on your business.
We would welcome the opportunity to visit your
company to discuss our apprenticeship service. To arrange a
free, no obligation visit call our Business Development Team on
01234 291747 or complete our on-line enquiry
form.
1 Apprenticeships, survey conducted by Populus
on behalf of the Learning and Skills Council, February 2009.