Excellence in Apprentice Recruitment

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Overview

Between 2008-09 and 2012-13, the number of people starting apprenticeships rose from 239,900 to 510,200, a staggering 113% increase. At the same time, the breadth of apprenticeships available to school leavers (and others) has expanded rapidly, meaning that the traditional view of apprenticeships – manual trades, in the main – has become outdated.

Higher apprenticeships, degree apprenticeships and a multitude of new skill areas have given school leavers more choice than they’ve had for years, but – along with the mire of apprentice funding – the landscape has become ever more complicated for employers.

This training course will equip you with the knowledge that you need to be able to establish a new apprenticeship programme, scale up an existing programme or re-focus your programme for excellence.

Four key things you will learn on this course:

Understand why innovation is so important and how it can be best supported

Understand how HR can play a major role in making organisations more innovative

Have considered a range of opportunities for making HR itself more innovative and how these could be applied to your own organisation

Have planned how HR can become more innovative itself to support both business and HR innovation agendas within your organisation

Who should attend:

• Director, VP or manager of HR, talent management, recruiting, learning, organisation development etc
• HR business partner or HR practitioner, wanting to contribute more broadly to the innovation agenda
• Business leader, with responsibility for talent management

Programme

Trainer

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Ben Jackson

Early Careers & Talent Expert

Ben has worked in the recruitment industry for more than 15 years. He began at Hays as a Recruitment Consultant in 2000, before running Hays’ in-house recruitment team, responsible for sourcing around 700 graduate hires every year. He then joined a European field marketing group as Head of Recruitment, before joining Motorola as Head of Recruitment for Northern Europe.

More recently, Ben became a Client Director at global RPO business Alexander Mann Solutions, managing recruitment operations and client delivery at Prudential, Cable&Wireless and Ericsson. In this role he had sole responsibility for P&Ls totalling around £25m per annum.

In 2008, Ben joined the GradWeb, the UK’s leading graduate / future talent recruitment outsourcing and technology business. As a board director, he steered the company through the recession, achieving c.80% revenue growth and a significant increase in profitability. Within this role, Ben consulted with many of the UK’s largest graduate and apprentice employers, including almost half of the Times Top 100 employers. In 2014, Ben set up as a consultant, helping recruitment teams – both in-house and outsourced – to become better at talent acquisition and management.

Ben has a Bachelor’s degree in Latin and Ancient History, and is a qualified Prince 2 Practitioner. He speaks regularly on the subject of millennials / Generation Z at events run by the likes of the CIPD, the Association of Graduate Recruiters, the Forum for In-house Recruitment Managers (the FIRM) and Symposium Events. He has published numerous articles in HR Grapevine, OnRec and Graduate Recruiter magazines.

What are people saying?

Here is just some of the feedback left by previous attendees:

• ”Very useful course. Nice size group. Good venue.”
  Resourcing Manager, Carnival UK
• “Nice size group & useful to hear about other’s experiences.”
  Learning & Development Specialist, DFS
• ”Really great to meet with other people in a similar situation. Picked a lot of useful information. Thank you.”
  Learning & Development Specialist, NFU Mutual
• ”Lots of opportunity for discussion. A good group too. Really enjoyed today. Thank you.”
  Anonymous
• “Well structured course. Good examples shared and lots of open discussion encouraged.”
  TA Specialist, Early Careers, Lockheed Martin UK

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