Apprenticeships
National Apprenticeship Week 6th Feb – 12th Feb 2023
The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS)
The NAS website has lots of information about apprenticeships for young people, their parents and prospective employers. It also includes listings of current vacancies although you need to be registered in order to actually apply for any of these vacancies. In addition, it contains some excellent support materials for making a successful application.
Click here for the The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS)
Unifrog
In addition to having a university course search, Unifrog also gives useful LMI about different sector areas and allows you to search for apprenticeship and school leaver programmes. For log-in details, should you require them, please see your form tutor.
Not Going to Uni
Not Going to Uni is a useful website if you want to consider other options, rather than progressing onto university at the end of you’re a-Level studies. Have a look to see what other career pathways are available to you.
Get My First Job
The website Get My First Job contains information about apprenticeships and traineeships as well as a job search function.
Top Tips for School Leavers
Top tips from students and experts to help you succeed when making those important job applications for the career of our choice. For more advice on planning a career in business visit the EY Career Guide website. This is a short video, produced by EY, with top tips from students and experts to help you succeed when making those important job applications for the career of your choice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50mBWitZJk
School Leaver Programmes
School leaver programmes are increasing in number and provide a fantastic alternative to Higher Education – Using the website, you can find the latest school leaver programmes, from top UK employers who are eager to recruit bright, enthusiastic school and college leavers. Although many of the programmes also involve you studying for a degree whilst getting paid and gaining important work experience. A school leaver programme can last three, four or even six years, during which school leaver trainees juggle work with study; often four days a week at the office, one day a week at university, and studying at home.
Some school leaver programmes focus on attaining a bachelor’s or foundation degree, while others are built around a professional qualification. A few school leaver programmes combine them both, offering trainees the chance to obtain a degree and a postgraduate professional qualification.
Degree Level Apprenticeship
A degree apprenticeship is a job combined with a university degree, meaning you’ll be working for an employer most of the time and studying at university or college for the rest. If you are interested in finding out about a degree level apprenticeship, then you can use the UCAS Career Finder tool to search for opportunities.
Student Ladder
If you are interested in working for a major national/international company like those listed below, go to the Student Ladder website and do some research on the school leaver programmes or work experience opportunities. There are ICT, financial, engineering, legal, human resource and accountancy opportunities, amongst others available.
Here are some examples of the types of companies who offer school leaver programmes: British Airways, Bank of England, KPMG, Laing O’Rourke, Jaguar Land Rover, National Grid, Siemens, Mars, Aviva, Channel 4, IBM, Boots and Harrods.