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Training a New Employee – advice required please?
We currently have a young person that has been handed to us by a training company.
He seem to have what I can only describe as the "right stuff" so we will be taking him on.
The issue is the training company wish us to take them on as an apprentice after his trial period.
This will entail us being able to send us on an apprenticeship scheme.
The burning question is obviously, their is no available apprenticeship as a "Sign maker" as this is a specialist business, so what do we send him to do?!!
My thing is to qualify I have to send him for some sort of apprenticeship which will give him a qualification.
What area should he be trained for his apprenticeship in?SC
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We took on an apprentice nearly a year ago. Thinking he would go on day release to college…..he didn’t.
We ended up having to use a company called soloman, who come out once a month, spend a couple of hours with him and has a folder to work through in between. It’s for health and safety in the work place. Not exactly in our field but he’ll get a qualification at the end for that, and he’ll have a years experience in the sign trade, trained by us.I think ideally, I would’ve liked him to do a graphic design course, or something similar. My problem was getting him into a college locally to do this sought of thing. I was guided badly from the start, this was a first for us.
Depending where you are, there is a course at a college for digital printing, sponsored by Roland/ metamark I think.
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Walsall College provide a NVQ Level 2 Course in Signmaking and Intermediate/Advanced Apprenticeships in Signmaking
Just google "Walsall college signmaking"
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We took an apprentice on, she wanted to do the graphic design course, however that incorporated all sorts of things, in the end the Pre-Press apprenticeship fitted the bill much better.
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