Apprenticeships
What is an apprenticeship?
Broadly speaking, an apprenticeship is an arrangement whereby an apprentice is engaged to learn a skill or trade while working for someone. The apprentice is paid for their time. The training might come from ‘on-the-job’ training or from specialist instruction, or a combination of the two. When the apprentice has been fully trained, he/she is no longer an apprentice.
Apprenticeships operate in a huge variety of sectors – retail, agriculture, health and social care, hairdressing, energy, catering, life sciences, fashion, customer service, and many more.
As a recruitment business, you might be involved with apprenticeships in two ways:
• You might take on apprentices as part of your own staff, to train them in recruitment.
• You might want to become (or create) an Apprenticeship Training Agency, which supplies apprentices to other businesses. This provides the client business with similar flexibility to supplying temporary workers.
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