Just came across this and wondered if anyone was interested or new anyone that this might be useful to pass on to :
Henley College Coventry have Apprenticeship Vacancies across the City for immediate start!
Earn a minimum of £95 per week while you learn These vacancies are for age 16-18 year olds
For more details contact Matthew Bastock at Henley College on 02476 626381.
The Age limit probably restricts 99%+ of us but thought I would post it anyway on the off chance.
Rob, this is your turf, don't know if the info's any use to you.
Shaun.
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I had received a few emails about it but I do not think I am in a position to offer a youngster good training. I could get them on sage al day long but my experience with kids in the past have been that they need an awful lot of supervision which I cannot give. Funnily enough, I put an ad for a part time admin assistant ( a couple of afternoons a week) in gumtree last week, mainly to help out with the call answering side of the business and do some filing etc. I have had nearly a hundred applications from across the spectrum. I'm interviewing 3 (today I thought about making it four since an ex-model has applied!) but my red hot favourite is a 61 year old lady who has just retired and for the last 20 years has been involved in payroll which would be a useful backup for me.
Good choice Rob, older people are more reliable and hardworking - ok generalisation but in my days of NVQ assessing I experienced more than enough of 16-18 year old modern apprentices in offices. Because the company I was working for was placing these young people in companies I was involved in any of the problems of the trainee, constant lateness and duvet days were the main problems, along with inappropriate clothing.
Problem is though that the government pays companies to employ them so it's basically free labour.
You also get free AAT training up the 21 years old (as the AAT want to keep their charity status).
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I would definitely recommend this to kids serious about accountancy as you gain valuable experience along with the qualifications at a far younger age then you would have if you went the university route.
I did this, leaving school part way through A-levels on what was a YTS back then and I was a lot more knowledgeable than the wet behind the ears newly qualified ACAs by the time I qualified ACCA as I had been working 11 years (I took a break from studies after AAT and later went back to it). This actually made my blood boil as they always came to me for advice and they commanded higher salaries!
Only downside is that you miss out on the 'fun' of university and don't really have a 'life' for a while as obviously working full time means all studying takes place at evenings and weekends.
Better not tell her about this site Rob or she'll be seeing you in a whole different light.
Hope she turns out to be as good as she came across at interview.
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Yes true colours appear here! I think she will be an asset, in fact to pick up from something Sheila said, she has only had 6 days off sick in her last ten years employment. Outside of injuries/serious illnesses I would say that is how it should be but in reality people seem to think they are entitled to a week or two a year paid sick leave. I bet not many people here ever take a day from there 6 day a week job!
Reminds me of a contract that I had working for a government department in London.
When getting towards year end people were starting to complain because they had not used all of their holiday and sick days for the year.
The management resolved the matter by allowing everyone to take all their sick days before the year end and then pay unpaid holidays as obviously devotion to their work meant that they had not had time to take their full entitlements!
As a one man band who regards bank holidays as periods of enforced periods of non payment the whole thing is a totally alien concept to me.
Really need someone to explain this to me. You sit at home or on a beach somewhere and someone still pays you! No, does not compute, something just has to be wrong with that sentence!!!
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