Apprenticeships are a proven tool to enhance your business. Taking on an apprentice has many benefits: By considering an apprenticeship you should also think about costs: all employees apprentices must receive a wage. The cost of training is also a consideration – does this outweigh the cost of employing a skilled worker or not. […]

For many businesses the option of taking on new staff is a mute point. The economic climate is still biting however big your order book. One way of combating a lack of bodies on, say, the shop floor, is to think about using an apprentice to bolster your workforce. Some of you may feel that […]

15th March 2011 by Dawn Guinness In these austere times businesses, especially for our small employers, are finding it difficult to make the decision to recruit new employees.  The reasons most companies look at employing new staff are: Many companies, in the current climate may feel that employees’ leaving is an ideal time to cut […]