roundtable TALENT & SKILLS - EVOLVING THE STRATEGY
increased our business apprenticeship opportunities over the last three or four years, and are looking to increase visibility of these programmes in the future.
Stuart McPherson: We need to help shift the perception of exactly what an apprenticeship programme consists of and how the incoming standards set to replace the current apprenticeship framework will affect your delivery models. The new Trailblazer groups will put the content design very much back in the hands of the employers who are setting much more contextualized end point examination routes. The standards and the displaying of that particular competency in the workplace will enable programmes to be much more aligned to business output.
Andrew Ward: We are using apprentice programmes currently to supplement our graduate programmes. These all involve working towards a degree as well as a professional qualification. It’s an interesting experiment for us and a more expensive route because of the length of time it takes them to qualify, and it’s too soon to know whether it will create a different dynamic when they qualify. They do the same type of topics, just over a slightly different time frame. They have slightly different jobs when they start off. It synthesises quite nicely and has helped broaden the diversity of our hiring bringing in new ideas and attitudes.
Charmyn Hall: We find apprentices challenging to attract as they don’t recognise our brand, whereas graduates are likely to have used our tools in their labs, so we focus on attracting local apprentices so that they can learn about us as an employer. With Graduates, we want the high potential people that other companies, with bigger household branding than we have, are also competing for.
PICTURED (PREVIOUS PAGE) CHARMYN HALL HR DIRECTOR OXFORD INSTRUMENTS
PICTURED LEFT MICHAEL WOODHALL MANAGER, LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, EMEA FORD MOTOR COMPANY
SONYA ALEXANDER HEAD OF TALENT MCLAREN GROUP LTD
IAN DOWD
MARKETING DIRECTOR NGA HR
STUART MCPHERSON LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT MANAGER INTERSERVE PLC
ANDREW WARD TALENT & DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR KPMG
Jane Nicholson: It will be interesting to see what will happen to the higher education sector as more and more employers recruit apprentices. Are we producing the right graduates? I think the higher education sector is going to have to adapt to what we as employers require.
Andrew Ward: We already offer a post-graduate route for students and, to some extent, are already offering a business school experience; we just don’t brand it that way.
THERE'S A STRONG CASE TOO IN SECTORS THAT ARE HISTORICALLY ELITE, OPENING UP OPPORTUNITIES TO A WIDER DEMOGRAPHIC.
Jane Nicholson: Indeed, that is the case in the legal profession, and so actually it would not be that big a leap for the accountancy profession to actually start thinking about that. There is talk about moving closer to the German Apprenticeship
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