Our Apprenticeship Talent Programme

Making yourself “attractive” to a prospective employer – our Apprenticeship Talent Programme

Clients often ask us “Do you know of anyone good that is looking for an apprenticeship?” Rather than leave it to chance and to reactively wait for prospects to approach us, we have developed a Talent Programme in order to attract, screen and develop those with the attitude and talent to succeed in a career in accountancy. The process involves:

  • Advertising the programme in specified locations (to meet a known employer need). This is done on our website and on social media, such as via a FaceBook campaign;
  • Requiring all those expressing interest to submit a CV;
  • Enrolling those submitting their CV onto our Bookkeeping Aptitude Test and;
  • Requiring them to submit the end of course test within 10 days, and obtaining a minimum mark of 90%;
  • Of these candidates, we invite them to an interview with us (more recently, this has been conducted on-line via Zoom/Teams). For those successfully “passing” this stage; we enrol them on the Talent Programme, in to include:
  • Enrolment on the Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping course (for free), with the intention of allowing them to show their progress in their studies on their CV;
  • Attendance at drop in classes;
  • Guidance on CV writing and submitting job applications;
  • Adding to our Talent Programme Matching Service when we consider their progression on the programme sufficient to justify promotion to our clients.

The above process requires a commitment from you to progress your initial studies, attend our premises (or maintain at least weekly contact with one of our Talent Programme tutors) and to receive information, advice and guidance – hopefully helping you become more employable and providing our clients with new recruits who have had a head start and have shown the appropriate aptitude and attitude.

Although this is provided as a free service, the benefit to us is that, if successful, you will subsequently be enrolled onto our funded Apprenticeship programme.

We should re-iterate that we are not a recruitment agency, we do not charge recruitment fees and the above service is aimed only at those entering the profession, rather than those already employed in an accounting role, in order to avoid any conflict of interest with our employer base. Because of the high level of support offered, places on the Talent Programme are limited. 

If you are interested in using our Talent Programme service over the coming year, please forward your CV to Victoria on [email protected] with a summary of the role you are looking for and when and your acceptable travel to work area.