Adecco : one in four
organisations have never considered employing
apprentices
Many organisations in the UK have never considered
apprentices, despite evidence that they are highly valued,
according to a report by The Adecco Group UK and
Ireland.
The report, Closing the Skills Gap: Will Apprenticeships
Deliver the Workforce of Tomorrow?, shows that 25% of organisations
have never hired apprentices. Furthermore, 27% of respondents state
that a popular reason for not employing apprentices is that they
feel an apprenticeship qualification is not well suited to their
business need. This is followed by the idea that
apprenticeships require too much time from the management team
(18%), and the worry that they are too much of a long-term
commitment in the current market (11%).
Meanwhile, the report states that employers do seem to
understand some of the benefits of apprentices versus graduates,
with apprentices believed to integrate better into company culture
(according to 47% of respondents) and respondents thinking
apprentices have a longer duration of employment (44%).
The report also shows that it's not just skills shortages
amongst Britain's youth that apprenticeships could target. It found
that more than 40% of the over 50s lack digital skills. Adecco
states that this could be effectively introduced during advanced
apprenticeships.
"The Apprenticeship Levy opens up new opportunities for
workplaces to bring older workers' digital skills up to speed. It's
time we stop thinking about apprenticeships as 'less-than' degrees
and recognise the very real value they fulfil in the workforce,"
Moore said.
The UK's apprenticeship Levy came into effect last month
with the Government stating that the levy will fund 3 million new
apprenticeships by 2020 with companies spending ￡3 billion a year
to contribute to the funding.
来自德科集团英国和爱尔兰的一份报告指出，尽管学徒在很多方面颇具优势，但英国多数组织和公司却从未考虑过聘用学徒。
一份名为《缩小技能差距：学徒见识未来的劳动力吗？》的报告显示，25%的组织从未雇佣过学徒。此外，27%的受访者表示，不雇佣学徒的主要原因是他们认为学徒的自身素质与其业务需求不相符。另有18%的受访者表示不雇佣学徒的原因是管理团队认为他们需要花费过多的时间和精力来管理学徒，并且担心他们意欲留任的时间过长。
根据报告显示，雇主很清楚学徒相对于大学生的长处，47%的受访者认为学徒最大的好处是可以迅速融入公司文化，44%的受访者认为学徒留任期会比较长。学徒制不但可以弥补英国青年群体技能短缺的空白，同时也能够弥补年长员工在某些技能方面的短缺。该报告中的数据显示，超过40%的50后员工在数字技能方面的技能有所短缺，德科指出，这可以在上岗前的学徒项目中进行培训。
德科集团英国、爱尔兰地区运营总监Chris
Moore提到，雇佣学徒给工作场所带来了新的机会与挑战，比如，年长的员工可以加快对数字技能的掌握。人们应该摒弃"学徒低人一等"这样老旧的观念，并清楚的意识到学徒的存在是有很大价值的。
英国已于上月启动了征用学徒项目，到2020年，该项目将征收300万名新学徒，公司每年将出资30亿英镑以支持该项目。
（翻译：刘筱晨）
来源：
http://probuildermag.co.uk/news/adecco-one-four-employers-never-considered-employing-apprentices