This month we speak to Josh Lund our senior talent manager at GetMyFirstJob. He gives us some insight into how he smashes his targets and increases his vacancy fill rate every month.
Topics: Apprenticeships, Employers, Guidance, Opportunities, recruitment, Recruitment Best Practice, School, Students, Training Provider Information, Training Providers, Apprentices, Best, Business, Careers, recruitment platform, GMFJ, Podcast, candidate pipeline, fill rates, candidate recruitment, jobs board, reactive candidate search
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Careers, Education, GMFJ
The Importance of Diverse Apprentices to UK Organisations
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
Topics: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Levy, Careers, Education, GMFJ, Funding
Guest Blog: What 1,000 CVs and job specs revealed about apprenticeship skills
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
How to make employment assessment enjoyable - use a challenging gaming app!
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
People-Fit – Our New Employability Tool for Candidates
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
Hospitality and catering – the latest recruitment picture in charts
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
Education is a market. But who is buying and selling?
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
A Level Results Day and GCSE Results Day are key dates- young people across the country are at the beginning of their next step.
As part of our strategy to engage more people with apprenticeships, and to help and support young people, schools, advisors and parents on these days, we have created some great resources to download, so that everyone has the best information possible to make their decision right for them.
Topics: Apprenticeship, Apprenticeships, Service, Careers, Results day, Resources
'To Encourage all Pupils to Continue Down a Purely Academic Route is Little Short of Scandalous'
In the last 20 years there has been a significant increase in the length of time young people have stayed in formal education.
Topics: Apprenticeships, Apprentices, Careers, Education