Apprenticeships

[Beach Hut]

Dear Good and Wise NSC People please can you help me (and Mrs Hut).

My son who is 18 (familiar to some of you at away games a few years back) has decided a third year at college was too much and has decided to quit.

He is very good ay sports, currently playing county league football but as with most 18 year olds prone to being a tad head strong at times however he needs to start a career and is keen to learn a trade.

Does anyone know or have an experiences of their kids doing apprenticeships, who with, were they good etc. He wants to get on in life so perhaps some of the younger NSC community might share some experiences of where they are doing apprenticeships now ?

Any useful feedback would very helpful

Thanks in advance

 

[Marc1901]

I was looking at getting an apprenticeship but they are really hard to get at the moment.

Sorry not much help but if he is looking the only company that I can think of where he might be able to get an apprenticeship is Mears.

 

[tedebear]

Can't vouch for any of the companies but you've looked here already?

http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Be-An-Apprentice.aspx

 

[Beach Hut]

Can't vouch for any of the companies but you've looked here already?

http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Be-An-Apprentice.aspx

Well done that lady, thanks and a good start

 

[Billy the Fish]

I dropped out of A Levels and got an apprenticeship 10 years ago. I wanted either IT or electrics but wasn't that fussy, the main thing for me was to learn how to do something, the classroom environment bored me shitless. In the end I got IT but only because I'd done my research, found out the company did apprenticeships and wrote to them, I got very little help through the job centre. A mate of mine did a good one in lift installation, he's always got work on and got transfrerrable skills if he wants to move abroad. It's a decent thing to do if you're not going to go the Uni route.

 

[scooter1]

A mate of mine is an electrician and he says if he knew then what he knows now, he'd have chosen to be a plumber. He was always going to be a tradesman and thought that being a sparky was the one for him, but after 20 years of building sites and coming home covered in shite, he says he may as well have been a plumber - the money is better....

 

[house your seagull]

i coordinate the apprentices at the organisation i work at.

in manchester there are a few bodies that act almost as recruitment agents, but without the arsehole element, and we use them to source our apprentices.

i don't know if there's a chamber of commerce in brighton but we use them a bit, also the local colleges - or certainly the bigger ones - often have a specialist in apprenticeship placements.

yesterday i offered a permnanent contract to an apprentice, so there are good opportunities out there if you work hard.

 

[Postman Pat]

My employer, Virgin Atlantic, is currently looking for Apprentice Engineers

Virgin Atlantic Airways - Popup

Need: Minimum of four GCSEs at Grade C or above, or equivalent, which must include Mathematics, Science (preferably Physics) and English Language

Closing date 1st April..... and no it isn't an April fool.

Good luck to Jnr Hut whatever he ends up doing.

 

[seagullwedgee]

Try Distance Learning, Gap Years, Foundation Degrees, Apprenticeships UK. Really good place to start with links to all sorts of options, including apprecticeships.

That is notgoingtouni.com

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Get him to find an employer first, then apply to City College.

 

[strings]

It'll be interesting to see what is in the budget - there are rumours of funding for apprentices. In the past my company has always taken an apprentice, who usually will end up staying with us at the end of the year because one member of staff will always move on in a company our size. This year we simply haven't got the money to afford an apprentice.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

It'll be interesting to see what is in the budget - there are rumours of funding for apprentices. In the past my company has always taken an apprentice, who usually will end up staying with us at the end of the year because one member of staff will always move on in a company our size. This year we simply haven't got the money to afford an apprentice.

Not much money being given to over 21's I hear. Especially over 19's in fact.

 

[middletoenail]

I dropped out of A Levels and got an apprenticeship 10 years ago. I wanted either IT or electrics but wasn't that fussy, the main thing for me was to learn how to do something, the classroom environment bored me shitless. In the end I got IT but only because I'd done my research, found out the company did apprenticeships and wrote to them, I got very little help through the job centre. A mate of mine did a good one in lift installation, he's always got work on and got transfrerrable skills if he wants to move abroad. It's a decent thing to do if you're not going to go the Uni route.

Freaky, my story is EXACTLY the same!

I went to College because my parents wanted me too and I thought that it was the right thing to do. Back in 2000, there was kind a of a boom in apprenticeships schemes and to be honest 10 years later I know I made the right choice in following the vocational route rather than academic. Now at 28 I am starting a Open Uni degree because I want too.. Funny how things change

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Apprenticeships Transport for London

 

[spunkmonkey]

If he's interested in getting into the leisure industry then we are currently seeking apprentices. I work for Freedom Leisure and we have a quite large range of apprentice routes. PM if you want more detail and I could direct you to the appropriate people.

 

[ROSM]

UK Power Networks (the networks business that was seeboard) have a good apprenticeship scheme. I think ability to drive is also a beneft for apprentices

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Likely to be an announcement on apprenticeships in the budget tomorrow. Prob more places. Should consider leisure and tourism industry. Maligned at the moment but great potential to go places if you're bright enough.

 

[beorhthelm]

pick carefully what to train in, something that cant be trained up quickly or done overseas...

plumbing, sparks, building in general are best options. some others might not be so great long term, you just dont know now though. some industries are easy to cross train from, so people who've spent a couple of years in shops and such can relativly easily learn the industry specifics, meaning the money will never be that great. pay is not by how hard or complicated a job is but by how many people can or are willing to do the job.

 

[Marty McFly]

Good thread Beachy!

It's certainly come at a helpful time to me. I dropped out of uni' in January, after finding it really wasn't for me.

I've just started looking into apprentices (very early stages of research) and would love to become a chippy or blacksmith. Not entirely sure of the route I'd have to take. So any advice/tips would be greatly appreciated Thanks.

 

[Bry Nylon]

A mate of mine did a good one in lift installation.

That must have its ups and downs.