Invest in your apprentice
Apprenticeships are becoming increasingly popular with employers and young people alike, as it becomes an attractive alternative to university study. If you are employing apprentices, or are thinking about hiring one, take a look at these five tips to ensure that you get the best from them.
- Teach the apprentice skills which support the long term needs of your business. This will avoid the apprenticeship becoming short term and irrelevant, which will not benefit the apprentice or the company.
- Think about quality, not quantity. Rather than taking on a whole truckload of apprentices and not being able to invest much time in them individually, hire just a few and deliver a high quality scheme will be more useful in the long run.
- Be supportive. Actively support and encourage the apprentice’s study and have regular meetings to see how they are getting on. Appoint a mentor to help them as they settle into their new position.
- It’s about lifelong learning. Apprenticeships aren’t just for school leavers; you can use the scheme to train up current employees.
- Commit to the scheme. Having a long term programme which develops real skills is important. Don’t think about your apprentice as short term cheap labour but as a full-time employee, essential to the business.
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