Apprenticeships
Interested in taking on an apprentice?
It's not surprising that more than 130,000 businesses in England use Apprenticeships as a means of training their workforce, when research reveals that UK businesses consider skills shortages a bigger threat to performance than soaring oil prices and declining consumer spending.
Apprenticeships are a mixture of on and off the job training that enables you to give your workforce the skills you need now and in the future. Their knowledge is up to date and the practical skills they learn on the job are those that are right for your business.
Apprenticeships offer your business:
- Training for all your existing staff and new recruits in a wide range of areas, from business administration and customer service, to specialist skills like engineering for others .
Over 180 Apprenticeships to choose from:
- As each Apprenticeship is developed and created by business, for business, they are specifically designed to meet your current business needs. Whether you are a high profile business or a smaller enterprise, Apprenticeships can help deliver the skilled workforce you need to succeed.
Contact a Business Link Adviser
For impartial expert advice on your training needs speak to a Business Link Adviser on 0845 600 9 006.
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Dollond and Aitchison – The employer of choice for the optical industry.
Dollond and Aitchison consider themselves to be the employer of choice for the retail optical industry. They made the Skills Pledge in June 2007 and were amongst the first employers in the country to do so.
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Whitbread pledges to offer high quality training to all staff.
The group which has an ethos of providing high quality customer service employs approximately 35,000 people, largely in direct customer service roles. Find out how taking the Skills Pledge in 2007, it has helped them revolutionise their company.
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Sainsbury's does things differently with the Skills Pledge.
Serving 16 million customers each week, and employing 148,000 staff, you'd think Sainsbury's wouldn't have time to train staff. Find out how the taking the Skills Pledge has helped them develop their highly-skilled workforce.
Visit Sainsbury's success story