National Apprenticeship Week 2025

This National Apprenticeship Week, let’s look at the many reasons to consider hiring Apprentices:

✅ Succession planning.
Building the workforce from the bottom up. Creating a pipeline of talent for upward promotion.

✅ Skills development.
Tailoring skills and training for specific needs, often company-specific.

✅ Increased productivity.
Allowing experienced workers to focus on the roles they’ve been trained to do.

✅ Fresh perspective.
New talent brings new ideas.

✅Cost efficiencies.
There may be Government incentives for hiring Apprentices.

✅ Talent retention.
Hiring, training, and retaining talent is the ultimate success story.

✅ CSR commitments.
Proving vocational routes into work gives something back to the community.

❌ Are there any negatives?