Posting vacancies everyday onto GetMyFirstJob, we experience first-hand the challenges and successes of filling roles. With many factors influencing factors and points to consider when recruiting we explain below how you can stand out from competitors with just a few simple tweaks to your opportunities.
Topics: Apprenticeship, Apprenticeships, Opportunities, Opportunity, Recruitment Best Practice, Apprentices, Careers, GMFJ, industry, Emerging Talent, fill rates, candidate recruitment, jobs board, workexperience, employment, marketing, attraction, HR, national wage, job advert
GetMyFirstJob, National Citizen Service, The Sutton Trust, The MOBO Trust, The Living Wage Foundation, UK Youth, The Big Youth Group and Movement to Work – representing a community of over three million young people from diverse backgrounds – are teaming up this summer. The campaign, everyone.work, will connect young people from diverse backgrounds to inclusive employers, apprenticeship, traineeship and work experience opportunities.
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Apprenticeships, Employers, Opportunities, Skills, Apprentices, Careers, skills gap, recruitment platform, industry, capabilities, skill set, futuretalent, diverse, diversity recruitment, candidate recruitment, diversity
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, GMFJ
Apprenticeships, like other important talent initiatives, should be aligned to corporate strategy and accountable to the same business metrics as other people-related programmes.
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, chanllen, recruitment platform, GMFJ, diverse, diversity recruitment
A year on from the Levy, what are the implications for apprenticeship recruitment?
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Levy, Careers, Education, GMFJ, Funding
Vinit Patel, COO of Filtered came to us for anonymised candidate profiles which we provided so he could write this blog piece. Read below and be sure to check out the other blogs Vinit and his team have written here.
Topics: Apprenticeship, Job, recruitment, Recruitment Best Practice, Careers, Education
Providing direction based on attributes, advising candidates on suited industries and roles.
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, GMFJ, apttude testing, strengths, capabilities, skill set
The TalentPortal, are specialists in candidate recruitment, get to know the Customer Service Managers who work with colleges, employers and providers using our system daily.
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, GMFJ, customer support managers
One thing you may not know about GetMyFirstJob & the TalentPortal is that we're a Social Enterprise. You may think, what does this actually mean? We'll explain it to you.
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, GMFJ, apttude testing, strengths, capabilities, skill set
The TalentPortal, specialists in candidate recruitment, and now with an added candidate profiling tool.
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, GMFJ, apttude testing, strengths, capabilities, skill set
Today we are launching our analysis on candidate interest in the Hospitality & Catering industry
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, Facts, GMFJ, Hospitality, Catering, tourism, industry
The degree apprenticeship programme needs greater clarity in quality and delivery standards, and diversification away from management degrees in order to be truly successful, says David Allison
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Opportunities, Careers, Education, Facts, GMFJ, Apprenticeship vs. University, degree apprenticeship, delivery standards
They say patience is a virtue but with GetMyFirstJob you no longer have to wait for applications; once your vacancy has been added, you can start searching the TalentPortal database for suitable candidates.
Topics: Apprenticeship, Recruitment Best Practice, GMFJ
We do not provide our young people with enough information – especially not in terms of money – on their pathways through further and higher education.
Topics: Apprenticeship, Opportunities, Careers, Education, Apprenticeship vs. University, degree apprenticeship
The Power of Partnerships - GetMyFirstJob has just enjoyed a bumper summer of activities. On behalf of our training and education partners, we’ve interacted with more engaged young people, careers advisers and schools than ever before. For me, one of the big breakthroughs has been the way in which we’ve been able to create real benefit by partnering with some great youth organisations across the UK, together reaching over 2 million young people every year.
Topics: Apprenticeship, working together, partnership, collaborate, alliance
