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Recruiting apprentices and trainees

Posted by: Scott Smallman, Posted on: 23 March 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, User research
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...and manage applications. ‘Recruit an apprentice/trainee’ will replace the existing Apprenticeship vacancies (Av) management service used by providers. Understanding how providers manage applications Training providers use Av to list apprenticeship...

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How hiring apprentices is helping us plan for the future

Posted by: Anish Mistry, Posted on: 18 March 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, Jobs and careers, Solution Design and Innovation
Iphone with headphones plugged into it, displaying the GOV.UK homepage of Find an Apprenticeship

...need for developers is only going to increase. One way for us to fulfil our future need is to build our own pipeline of talented developers – apprenticeships are a...

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My apprenticeship - what happened next?

Posted by: Joe Ingledew, Posted on: 17 March 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, Jobs and careers
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Joe completed his software development apprenticeship in 2015. In this blog he looks back at his decision to take choose an apprenticeship over university and updates us on his new role as a Junior Developer.

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I feel like I'm doing something that matters

Posted by: Luke Rayner, Posted on: 16 March 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, Jobs and careers
Luke, author of the blog saying I decided to take on an apprenticeship because it gave me the opportunity to get experience as a software developer

...most companies looked for when hiring a software developer, I realised that not many asked for a degree - they wanted people with experience in the workplace. I decided to...

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My apprenticeship is a key stepping stone in my career

Posted by: Jordan Sinclair, Posted on: 15 March 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, Jobs and careers
Jordan, a software development apprentice and author of the blog. Within two months of my apprenticeship I was tasked with my first project that was to go into live deployment. This gave me a feeling of pride as I am contributing and doing something which matters.

...was the best route to establish my career. An apprenticeship would give me workplace experience alongside the training, whereas university is primarily lecturing with the hopes of a worthwhile industry...

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The apprenticeship Pledge-o-meter #BuiltByApprentices

Posted by: Jordan Sinclair and Luke Rayner, Posted on: 14 March 2016 - Categories: Apprenticeships, Jobs and careers
National Apprenticeship Week Pledge-o-meter

...ASP.NET Web Forms, which neither of us were very familiar with. We used online resources to teach ourselves There’s always something new to learn Working in the SFA and on...

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