National Apprenticeship Week targets SMEs
As the eighth National Apprenticeship Week 2015 takes place, apprenticeships ambassador and entrepreneur, Jason Holt CBE highlights the opportunity for SMEs
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BT creates 1,000 new UK apprenticeships and graduate jobs
BT talks about its new apprenticeship and graduate programmes
Young professionals more motivated by ability to make an impact, study finds
When asked what matters most to employees who are part of the millennial generation – generally defined as those born after 1980 – the greatest number of respondents (23 per cent) said it was “the ability to make an impact…
BT creates 1,000 new UK apprenticeships and graduate jobs
The new recruits to BT will work in a range of areas, including software development, IT, engineering and digital technology
Mobile technology could be key to workplace happiness, research claims
42 per cent of app users don’t use mobile technologies in the workplace and these ‘un-appy’ employees are missing out. Almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of people who do use apps at work report that their favourite mobile tools save…
Gravitas skills are key to unlocking door to Britain’s boardrooms for women, says expert
Less than 25 per cent of board members of FTSE 100 companies are women
What are the top three coaching techniques for managers to drive individual and team performance?
Denise Hudson-Lawson examines the top three coaching techniques managers can use to drive individual and team performance
YMCA: Training needed to combat youth unemployment
Central YMCA, which supports young people into work through its national YMCA Training operation, has today launched a roadmap of eight key recommendations designed to tackle youth unemployment, along with research highlighting the financial prize of getting it right
Young people don’t believe they are being taught the skills businesses will be looking for, report claims
New research from LifeSkills created with Barclays reveals a glaring gap in the skills young people say they are being taught and those that businesses will want in 10 years. Digital skills and problem-solving among the top skills 14-25 year…
A cross-party plan for skills is needed, says Sir Charlie Mayfield
The event has been convened by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth, a cross-party group of leading parliamentarians working across the political divide to identify ways of ensuring the UK’s success is more fairly shared. This will be…
