B USINESS FIRS T NEW SLETTER


October 2010


How Apprenticeships can help your business Through Business First we can offer a range of apprenticeships from Accountancy and Business Administration through to Carpentry, Engineering, Electrical Installation, Hairdressing, Hospitality and Catering, Motor Vehicle, Painting and Decorating, Plumbing, Sport and Leisure and Warehousing, to help you make your organisation effective, productive and competitive by addressing your skills gap directly. We can even promote your Apprenticeship vacancy and short list potential applicants and employers can take advantage of our free vacancy matching service which will ensure that you will get the best suitable candidate(s). Marie Sneddon, Manager of the Apprenticeship programme at the College said "We want to get the message out to employers that apprentices do pay their way and employers will see a visible return on their investment in a relatively short period of time."


Grow your own talent! Swindon College still has apprentices in the following industry sectors that are looking for employment in: Business Administration Hospitality Engineering and Electrical Motor Vehicle Warehousing Construction: Bricklaying, Plumbing, Painting & Decorating and Carpentry.


Swindon College offers employers a FREE vacancy matching service, which will ensure that employers get the best suitable candidates. Full support is also given to employers throughout the process from trained and experienced assessors.


Funding Available We can offer full funding towards to cost of training an Apprentice (aged 16-18), with funding contributions available for Apprentices aged over 19. If any of your existing staff are between 16 and 19 they can still undertake an Apprenticeship programme in their current role.


Why choose us? Candidates are pre-screened to ensure suitability to your company Gain staff who are trained to industry standards by professionals Swindon College offers a free vacancy matching service Full support for you throughout the process from trained and experienced assessors Higher than average success rates, with strong timely achievement rates Proactive and flexible delivery model Dedicated and experienced staff Excellent links with sector skills councils, awarding bodies and employers.


Business first has launched an Apprenticeship Employer Network for businesses in Wiltshire who employ or who are looking to employ an apprentice.


The Network is a new, free initiative designed to bring employers together to discuss common experiences, issues and benefits while also accessing the vacancy matching service, candidate pre-screening, organisational needs analysis and free advice on funding. The scheme’s priority will be to match the right employers with the right apprentices.


Apprentice receives award for outstanding


achievement Rosie Cole won the Best Overall Apprentice of the Year award this year at the Swindon College FE Awards Ceremony. Rosie who has just completed her NVQ Level 3 Advanced Hairdressing, is a dedicated hairdresser with drive and enthusiasm. The Level 3 NVQ Hairdressing is all about fine tuning, professionalism and integrity and requires clear thinking and levelheadedness. Rosie encompasses all of this, no matter what is put in front of her and the Bernard Griffiths Salon has given Rosie excellent training.


New Apprenticeships The College is now offering apprenticeships in Customer Services, Multi-skilled Hospitality, Warehousing and Professional Cookery. For more information about these sectors contact the Apprenticeship Team on (01793) 498208 or email: apprenticeships@swindon-college.ac.uk.


WIN! A bottle of wine... Be one of the first five companies to sign up as a member of the


Swindon College Apprenticeship Employer Network and win a bottle of wine. simply register online, visit www.swindon-college.ac.uk/training-business and click on the join our employer network section.You will need to register your name and company and quote ‘reader offer’.


For more information Call the Apprenticeship Team on Tel: (01793) 498208 or visit our website at www.swindon-college.ac.uk/apprenticeships p5


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