SME owner with young trainees

Business owners are enjoying the benefits Skills for Life and It all starts with Skills — a Department for Education campaign that promotes apprenticeships, Skills Bootcamps, T Level industry placements, Multiply numeracy courses, and other training and employment schemes — which are designed to grow teams skills.

These training and employment schemes are appealing to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across a wide range of sectors from digital and health to construction and engineering. And the programs are creating exciting opportunities for businesses of all sizes, in a range of sectors, across the UK.

Here, employers explain what benefits they’re embracing through the schemes...

You get access to the best and brightest talent in the industry and they’ll have a fresh take on the way your business operates.

Attracting a new generation of recruits through apprenticeships, Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs), and T Level industry placements means having a talent pipeline of bright, young, and committed learners focused on growing their knowledge and exploring all areas of a business.

Kim Slater drives the recruitment of apprentices at FD Works, a Bristol-based accountancy firm, where she started off as a digital marketing apprentice. It now has nine apprentices on board and Kim feels strongly that the apprenticeships are a core talent pipeline and an investment in the future of the business.

“We’re only a small company so the apprentices make up about 50% of our workforce,” Kim explains. “There’s only one person on the team who hasn’t done an apprenticeship previously so we’re big on it here!”

“What I’ve noticed about our apprentices is how keen they are to get involved in other sides of the business and alter their perspective. They’ve not just got their........

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