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Tag: employ

Challenging the way you design and deliver apprenticeships

  Chris Cherry asks providers to be brave if they are going to create genuine employer-led apprenticeships that employers and young people will value. Employer-led standards? The world of work and what employers are demanding of ...

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  • 27 May
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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  • apprentice , apprenticeships , apps , assessment , cpd , curriculum , employ , employer , employers , epa , fe and skills , insights , provider , providers , skills , standards

Using the pandemic to reset your workforce development plans

The pandemic has transformed our world overnight. The economic impact has hit hard, the way we work has changed and the wellbeing and productivity of our workforce has come into sharp focus. What this has done, however, is give HR and ...

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  • 20 May
  • Tim Chewter
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  • covid , employ , employer , employers , insights , pandemic , skills , webinarlibrary , workforce , workplace

Managing your team online is here to stay irrespective of the impact of Covid

If you were a manager or team leader when the country went into lockdown in March 2020 you probably felt dropped in the deep end of virtual management. Madly trying to keep your staff supported, engaged and productive whilst battling ...

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  • 09 Oct
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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  • apps , employ , epa , hei , skills , tlevel

Maintaining and growing long-term relationships with employers

Long-term is better for your bottom line. Ask any strategic marketeer about customer acquisition vs customer retention and they will tell you that it costs five times as much to attract a new customer than it does to retain an existing ...

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  • 09 Oct
  • Tim Chewter
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  • apps , employ , skills

Aligning your curriculum offer with the ever-changing talent pipeline needs of employers

The workforce needs of businesses are changing rapidly. Technological advancement replaces jobs that were once in high demand and new roles with new skills emerge in their place. So, how can colleges and training providers align their ...

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  • 22 Sep
  • Tim Chewter
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  • apps , employ

Help employers make sense of the Chancellor’s summer statement options

On Thursday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced several incentives to encourage employers to create more work opportunities for young people over the next six months, rather than batten down the hatches to weather ...

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  • 14 Jul
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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  • apps , employ , skills , tlevel

There is a skill to attracting the right people to your apprenticeship positions… here’s a few tips

You’ve decided to maximise your levy, work with your teams and a training provider to develop an awesome apprenticeship programme that will give you a pipeline of talented staff ready to become your skilled workforce of tomorrow. ...

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  • 10 Oct
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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  • employ
Employer Workforce Apprenticeship Programme

Employers – taking a long-term view of apprenticeship training will pay dividends

With apprenticeship levy credits expiring each month, it can be tempting to either bury your head in the sand and write the levy off as a tax or spend hours and hours championing apprenticeships in a scatter-gun approach – persuading ...

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  • 09 Jul
  • Tim Chewter
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