Webinar: Do apprentices hold the key to solving your staffing challenges? by MA Business

Do apprentices hold the key to solving your staffing challenges?

About

Finding the perfect candidate has never been easy, but now skill supply is driving demand to record highs a change of tact might be needed.

With prospective candidates in the driver’s seat, employers are waiting anything up to nine months to fill some vacancies, costing the company for every day that position stays empty.

Degree-level apprenticeships are one of the ways employers can fill roles and effectively ‘grow their own’ talent for hard-to-find skillsets.

However financial and time-related barriers stand in the way for many employers, and there are still many misconceptions about who can take an apprenticeship and what they do.

Balancing these challenges against the cost of having vacant roles for several months and then risking low retention issues, could the effort put into running an apprenticeship be a more viable option to plug these gaps?

This webinar will explore:

• The challenges of running an apprenticeship scheme and how to overcome them
• How apprenticeships can be used as a powerful retention tool
• What HR needs to tackle apprenticeship stigma

Presenters

Beau Jackson

Deputy Editor

Hayley White

Early careers manager, Greencore

Hayley White recently joined Greencore as the early careers manager and has over 10 years’ experience in learning and development. For the last six years’ her experience has focussed primarily on early careers and Apprenticeship programme management.

Her role ensures that early careers programmes support the ongoing strategy of the organisation through talent development. She has also been an active member in the development of several Apprenticeship Trailblazer Standards for the UK government.

Richard Waite

People and culture director, Grant Thornton UK

Richard Waite leads Grant Thornton’s resourcing function for the UK, overseeing schools and campus recruiting, experienced hire, executive search and global talent mobility. His team recruits circa 1,600 people annually across all levels into the organisation from the UK and from around the world.

As a passionate advocate for the diversity and inclusion agenda, Waite has driven pioneering strategies across resourcing which have played a significant role in the firm-wide success we have seen in areas such as social mobility, leading to multiple award wins and successful rankings.

As a leading employer of apprenticeships Grant Thornton has long championed the benefits they can offer. Around 20% of the firm’s UK workforce are currently using apprenticeships for development.

Elizabeth Nyawade

Chief of people and culture Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Elizabeth Nyawade has over 20 years’ experience working as an HR and OD practitioner across 3 sectors – private, voluntary and public. Given the recent challenges faced by NHS organisations, working through Covid-19 Pandemic, the current focus is on providing diverse wellbeing initiatives for colleagues to ensure capacity to deliver for patients. Her passion is developing a sustainable pipeline of future talent from the local communities and in so doing contributing to population health.

Jo Gallacher

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