What are the benefits?

Apprentices can not only help solve your skills shortage, but also contribute to a boost in overall productivity and profitability.

Financial

Many businesses believe that apprentices make a marked impact on their businesses bottom line, with 77% stating that apprenticeships make them more competitive and 76% saying that apprenticeships contribute significantly to higher overall productivity*.

Apprentices are typically more cost effective to bring in to your business than skilled workers and more loyal, thereby delivering savings in both recruitment and training costs over the long-term.

Ready to go

According to NESS2009 research, there is a fundamental problem with academia delivering young people to the workplace with the necessary training to move into skilled manufacturing roles.

The strength of our manufacturing background means that all our training programmes deliver apprentices who are highly skilled, experienced and motivated to work saving you time and money.

Filling your skills gaps

New technology, manufacturing process and engineering techniques often leave a business short of the skills it needs to grow. We use our understanding of the sector to help you develp a tailored apprenticeship programme to equip your business for the future.

Because we have trained thousands of manufacturing apprentices, we know how to get the most out of the young people we meet. The combination of the two means we can provide an invaluable matching service of your specific requirements to potential candidates.

How EEF can help you

EEF Apprentice - How can we help you

How EEF can help you

Taking on an apprentice can seem daunting, but EEF understands manufacturing. This means we know how to make the process easy to ensure that developing apprentices is more beneficial to you.