Apprenticeships can offer businesses the fresh thinking they need right now. But with many vacancies going unfilled, Microsoft has a solution to help small business take full advantage.
Apprenticeships were a key feature of this week’s Budget and provide a renewed focus on their value as a proven and viable solution to get people into jobs, increase social mobility and develop the homegrown skills businesses needed for future growth.
While there is a need to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on jobseeker prospects, we should also be talking, even more urgently, about the very real opportunities that exist across every business in digital. While overall apprenticeship starts declined by around 16% year on year, digital remained flat, with starts outperforming the market trend from April through to June 2020.
Almost half of UK firms are looking to recruit tech workers. These roles, regardless of sector, require the same skills: data analytics, AI and cybersecurity. There is a
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