Traineeships
A traineeship is an unwaged education and training programme with on-the-job practical work experience that makes you ‘work ready’. It gives young people the skills and experience that employers are looking for and can lead to a job or an apprenticeship.
Checklist ● Consider a traineeship if you are aged between 16 and 23 (or have learning difficulties and are aged under 25) and are finding it difficult to get into work because you have insufficient qualifications or work experience.
● Traineeships are unwaged, but don’t cost you anything as they are funded by government.
● Lasting a maximum of six months, they are delivered by training providers, with employers providing work-experience placements and an interview as part of the programme.
● The benefit is that both you and the employer get a chance to sample each other before embarking on an apprenticeship.
● You will get additional tuition in English and maths if you have not already achieved a minimum of GCSE grade C in those subjects.
Search for traineeships on
www.apprenticeships.org.uk or
www.hittraining.co.uk/traineeships
Join the Big Hospitality Conversation 60,000 jobs are up for grabs
The Big Hospitality Conversation does what it says on the tin – it gets people in the industry talking to each other. It’s a sort of nationwide job-creation drive, linking young people who want a job with great employers. Heavyweight organisations such as the British Hospitality Association in partnership with Springboard, Believe in Young People, the Department of Work and Pensions, National Apprenticeship Services and Barclays Bank are all on board to help.
Here’s how ● By 2016, it will have secured 60,000 work placements, jobs and apprenticeships for young jobseekers like you, aged 16-24.
● By 2020, it will have created 300,000 new jobs.
● More than 2,500 businesses including famous restaurants, international hotel groups and the best tourist attractions have pledged their support.
● To date, it has created 43,300 apprenticeships, jobs and work experiences for 16 to 24-year-olds across the UK.
Opportunity knocks
The next Big Hospitality Conversation will take place at Skills London at ExCeL London Where ExCeL London exhibition centre. When 13 November 2015, 11am-1pm. What Inspiring panels will bring together young people like you and business leaders to discuss issues across work experience, apprenticeships and youth employment.
Inside info from an apprentice
Who Mollie Back, 16 Former school Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Islington, London Apprenticeship Hilton Worldwide
You are BiYP programme’s first apprentice for Hilton Worldwide. I completed a work experience
placement at Hilton’s Canary Wharf hotel last year, co-ordinated by Believe in Young People. The knowledge I gained during my placement was incredible as I moved around different departments. That was a great help to my apprenticeship application. BiYP gave me guidance, support and care and even helped me get my apprenticeship interview.
So how do you feel? I feel very successful and proud of
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myself. When I was in school all I dreamt about was working for Hilton; it feels crazy, unreal and amazing. It makes me feel like my hard work has paid off.
Career-wise, where would you like to be in five years’ time? By the end of my apprenticeship, I hope to have a job with Hilton, and in two years’ time, become a front of house supervisor. In five years’ time, my goal is to be a manager of a department.
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