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Claire Shore, senior business development manager, Blackburn College
We need to support the development of our small and medium sized businesses when it comes to strategic and business planning.
It is about timescales and the mindset of the business and whether it is ready to commit and plan for the recruitment of somebody. Some of the large businesses will switch very quickly to this but some of the small businesses will need extra support in that area.
Partnership is the way we will move forward on the apprenticeships and skills agenda. Making the effort at the beginning of the journey is what successful employers do. Let’s also not forget there’s a huge chunk of on-the-job learning.
Employers should be asking, what can I do to support my apprentices’ achievements and what can I expect and ask of others to support those achievements?
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Paul Armson, people services manager, James Hall & Co
The apprenticeship route is here and we want to offer a path so they can see what the future might look like.
Recruitment is so important. We’re looking at programmes where we bring people in and they spend time in all areas of the business for 12 months. Within that period, they can see if there’s an area that they’d want to work in.
It is making that effort at the beginning of the journey to get them invested, rather than people coming in, just hoping the apprenticeship will stick.
Using apprenticeships as a recruiting tool, you have to set your expectations at the right level.
It is letting people know you are not just looking Robin Lindsay
at developing a career but developing them as a person to add to the culture you have.
Megan Salkeld, curriculum manager – apprenticeships and online learning, Burnley College
We held a careers event this week with 600 applicants coming through the door, which is huge and a massive increase on last year.
People are more aware of the apprenticeship route, but the people that we’re getting through the door aren’t necessarily ready for a career within a company, large or small.
They don’t necessarily have those skills that they need to go into employment. So, we have to do a lot of work with those individuals when they come from school.
There’s more that we can do, as can employers, to support the development of those skills earlier on.
It is important for employers to be involved in early careers advice in school and for more work-based activities within those schools.
Gill Aquilina, head of apprenticeships, Nelson and Colne College
If you look at teachers in high schools and in Further Education, typically they have gone through the route of A Levels and university. They have never lived the apprenticeship experience and don’t really understand it.
That is where the barrier is, there is work to be done with the teachers. How are they going to promote apprenticeships when they really understand the university route?
If you’re in apprenticeships you understand it, you can talk about that route and really promote it. But if you’ve never done it, how do you sell something to somebody that is so different?
Paul Armson
Megan Salkeld
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