Apprentice Recruitment
The most important part of any apprenticeship scheme is finding the right people to employ. This takes time and effort however our Recruitment, Screening and Shortlisting service can do much of the work for you.
The Right Vacancy
Finding the right candidate for your Apprenticeship opportunity starts with you, the employer. We consult with you to understand more about your business and to find out what you are looking to achieve from the apprenticeship, ensuring we match the right Apprenticeship Standard with each opportunity. We then help you to refine the type of candidate you are aiming to employ, this could include aspects such as prior learning, geographic location or ability to drive.
Our Recruitment, Screening and Shortlisting service is optional, and you are welcome to complete the process yourself without our involvement.
If you do want us to work with you to recruit an apprentice we ask you to contribute towards the work we do, at a cost of £249 (+vat) per candidate who is appointed to an apprenticeship opportunity. This is paid once a candidate, who was recruited, screened and/or shortlisted by ETT, is offered an apprenticeship. T&Cs Apply.
Why do we charge?
The funding we receive for training apprentices covers the cost of the training and not the process of supporting each employer in finding the right candidate. We therefore ask employers to contribute to our Recruitment, Screening and Shortlisting process.
Recruitment
We can assist you in writing the job description and opportunity details before we then advertise the vacancy on our website, the Government ‘Find and apprenticeship’ website, UCAS website and social media. It is advisable that you, the employer, also advertise the vacancy in order to get it in front of as many people as possible. You can push interested candidates into our screening and shortlisting process.
We attend school careers events each year, are in contact 200+ career advisers, work with LEPs and other groups and promote ourselves via various social media platforms in order to make young people aware of the engineering apprenticeships our employers offer and to encourage applications from those with a keen interest.
Screening
We follow an in-depth process to ensure we only put forward suitable candidates for you to select and interview. There are three stages to the process;
Stage 1: Application
Candidates complete our application form which draws out the key information we need to assess if they are suitable and motivated to do an engineering apprenticeship.
Stage 2: Vocational Aptitude Assessment
An online assessment of their abilities in terms of key skills such as mechanical reasoning, understanding electrical principles, spatial awareness, principles of measurement, literacy, numeracy and general information technology ability. The results assist our team in assessing the level and type of apprenticeship a candidate is suitable for.
Stage 3: Telephone Interview
Each candidate completes a telephone interview with one of our Training Officers, all of who are engineers themselves. Within the interview our team test the candidate’s motivation to work in engineering, their drive to complete an apprenticeship, their interests, their skills and their capabilities. They also talk to the candidate about their location, their willingness to travel and their willingness to relocate if required (testing if this is a realistic option for that individual). Lastly they talk about the vacancies, what the candidate is interested in both in terms of current availability and what they would want to be considered for in the future.
Shortlisting
Those we feel are suitable for your apprenticeship will be pass to you and ultimately it is your decision who you interview and employ as your apprentice.
ETT Talent Pool
Our recruitment of apprentices runs all year round and attracts candidates with a wide variety of skills and backgrounds. We accept applications both in relation to a specific opportunity and also from candidates who are interested in being considered for multiple opportunities. Candidates who apply to us know they want a career in engineering and want to follow the apprenticeship route.
We recruit for both live vacancies and in anticipation of new vacancies coming on board. The number of applicant we have varies throughout the year and our team assess each applicant, taking them through the first steps of our recruitment process. Our Talent Pool is a group of potential apprentices who have been assessed and interviewed ready to be shortlisted for vacancies we feel they are suited to.
Employer Interviews and Selection
To get the right person/people for your business, the final stage of the process is completed by each employer.
We will provide you with a shortlist of candidates who we feel are suitable for your opportunity. You then decide which you would like to interview for the role. Each employer has a different process and we are happy to assist you at every stage.
Appointment
Once you know who you want to employ as an apprentice, you will go through your normal process to employ them. We too will complete the necessary paperwork required of us as the training provide and begin to plan and get the apprenticeship started.