Retail Apprenticeships include a wide range of job roles where you focus on meeting customer needs. From butchery, to travel consultancy as well as sales executives and retail management there are a lot of opportunities. It will give you experience in the industry as well as recognised qualifications to start a great Apprenticeship. You’ll be meeting customers’ needs through making a product or service and then dealing with your customers.
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A Traineeship is an opportunity for you to get work experience and the initial qualifications to progress onto an Apprenticeship or full-time role. A Traineeship is perfect for you if you don’t quite feel ready to go into the working world full time or on an Apprenticeship or you don’t have the qualifications that enable you to get onto an Apprenticeship. You’ll be able to get your English & Maths qualifications and some programmes also offer additional industry qualifications. If you’ve already got GCSEs, then it will be better for you to start looking at Apprenticeship opportunities.
Many Traineeship programmes also have the offer for a full-time job or Apprenticeship at the end of the scheme. Some training providers call their Traineeships ‘pre-Apprenticeship’ programmes.
Apprenticeships could be the ideal option for you when you’re thinking about getting your first job, starting your career or changing your career path. Apprenticeships combine working and experience with studying and qualifications. As an Apprentice, you’ll be working for a company with real responsibilities, but you’ll also go to College, University or maybe have a personal tutor who visits you in the workplace to study your related subject. As well as this, you’ll also be mentored by an experienced member of staff who’ll teach you the more hands-on skills you need!
Your apprenticeship will last between 1 and 6 years, depending on the level course you choose to study. When you finish your Apprenticeship, you will gain your Apprenticeship certificate and anything from an NVQ, BTEC or a degree as well as some other industry related qualifications your employer or training provider might put you through!
If you choose to do an intermediate (level 2) Apprenticeship, you’ll get qualifications the equivalent of 5 GCSES. An advanced (level 3) Apprenticeship is the same as doing 2 A-Levels! There are longer programmes such as the higher Apprenticeships and degree Apprenticeships. Higher (Level 4) Apprenticeships would mean you get qualifications the equivalent to a foundation year of a degree but higher Apprenticeships are also at level 5 and level 6. A degree (level 6) Apprenticeship will give you a Bachelor’s Degree qualification and a Masters (level 7) Apprenticeship would be the equivalent of your getting a master’s degree! What’s not to love about gaining those qualifications, all without the debt?!
When you choose to do your Apprenticeship, you’ll be working towards an ‘Apprenticeship Standard’. The Government decided to introduce these in 2017, and it means that no matter what your jobs is, there are still certain attitudes, skills and academic knowledge that you should learn during your Apprenticeship. This means that everybody who’s doing the standard as you, could be doing something slightly different day to day at work (like a real working environment) but you will also learn the essentials of the job in any company. Perfect!
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