Seddon Group gets 1,400 applicants for 75 apprenticeship roles
10 July 2012
Construction, property and maintenance firm Seddon Group has received 1,400 applications from candidates across the UK for the 75 apprenticeship roles it plans to recruit this year.
Tue, 10 Jul 2012
Construction, property and maintenance firm Seddon Group has received 1,400 applications from candidates across the UK for the 75 apprenticeship roles it plans to recruit this year.
The company notes that 65% of applicants met the entry criteria required by training organisation CITB ConstructionSkills, and says it will interview over 500 applicants.Its recruitment campaign included launching an interactive microsite for applications and holding over 50 careers events in schools, colleges and back-to-work schemes.
Seddon Construction director Nicola Hodkinson says: “The colleges are full of people on construction courses with no jobs to go to. In order for more employers to follow our lead, we’d like to see changes to the current funding arrangements, which, in our view, are too complex.
“It would make sense for more funding to go directly to employers who, after all, are the people needed to deliver the vocational experience which colleges can’t provide.”
Construction, property and maintenance firm Seddon Group has received 1,400 applications from candidates across the UK for the 75 apprenticeship roles it plans to recruit this year.
The company notes that 65% of applicants met the entry criteria required by training organisation CITB ConstructionSkills, and says it will interview over 500 applicants.Its recruitment campaign included launching an interactive microsite for applications and holding over 50 careers events in schools, colleges and back-to-work schemes.
Seddon Construction director Nicola Hodkinson says: “The colleges are full of people on construction courses with no jobs to go to. In order for more employers to follow our lead, we’d like to see changes to the current funding arrangements, which, in our view, are too complex.
“It would make sense for more funding to go directly to employers who, after all, are the people needed to deliver the vocational experience which colleges can’t provide.”
