Marketing or Business Admin Apprentice
If you’re a business owner taking your own calls, doing your own marketing or filing the paperwork then this could be for you...
Let’s be clear here, right up front – the biggest difference between high income, high profit businesses and run-of-the-mill, low income, low profit businesses is…
Perhaps the biggest barrier for most small businesses to growing their business is having the resources in place to simply get things done. We all know we should be working on the business rather than in it but there's always so much to do and the costs of employing someone to help are often prohibitive.
This could all change with your own marketing or business admin apprentice for 30 hours a week ALL for only £125 per week?
What would you be able to achieve if you had an extra 30 hours per week available to work on your business?
Whether you're looking to employ a new member of staff to take away some of the burden or up-skill your current employees to be able to take more responsibility the Skillwise Apprentice Programme can help.
We'll help you recruit an apprentice to work speciically alongside you, 30 hours per week, for 12 months.
We'll train one (or more) of your existing staff members to be able to support you with marketing and business admin
Whichever option you go with you'll get a lot more stuff done AND you're helping somebody to become more skilled and climb up the employment ladder...it's a compelling combination.
Be sure to check out some examples of the great marketing some of our apprentices have created for their businesses at the bottom of this
Billie has already had a huge impact at her business. She's supported her employer to bring in new customers by implementing marketing campaigns and worked to ensure the company is now well represented on social media. Check out what her employers had to say by clicking the video on the right.
Once we've sourced suitably qualified candidates for you, helped you with the selection process and you've appointed your successful candidate, the learner journey will begin:
(you won't need to do this if you already have somebody in the business who you would like to receive the training)
Learner starts their employment with you. Your assessor will attend your workplace to complete the apprenticeship induction. Your apprentice will also need an induction into your company to get a thorough understanding of your products and services.
You'll then get a monthly visit from your apprentice assessor to support your learner through their apprenticeship. At this visit the assessor will assign your apprentice with tasks to complete in order to provide them with more skills in their job role and also ask them to complete tasks and gather evidence to complete an NVQ.
If you wish to keep your apprentice on post apprenticeship, they then progress to full time / part time employment and can potentially complete a higher level apprenticeship and add even further value to your business.
Here's just a small example of the types of work your apprentice could do to help your business grow:
Uploading to the customer database to ensure your business is up to date
Business Admin
Sorting and distributing mail so your business is running smoothly.
We only work with high calibre apprentices. If we feel that an apprentice is not capable of making a genuine impact on your business or fulfilling their job specification then we won't enrol them. Our recruitment team will also work closely with you to ensure that your apprentice has the correct personal characteristics to fit in with your company ethos.
You’ll be paying a very reasonable wage, we recommend a minimum of £125 per week. Your time alone is worth more than that and as your apprentice begins to become more skilled you'll be able to delegate more tasks to them, freeing you up to focus on driving the business forwards.
Traditionally apprentices are required to take one day off work every week to attend college and complete their studies. With the Skillwise programme you'll still need to provide opportunity for your apprentice to work towards their qualification but the time and day work around you and the needs of the business rather than being a set period of time every week.
The apprenticeship levy is now in place. Whilst it's true that this means you'll now need to make a 10% contribution to the cost of training your apprentice (normally only around £30 per month) it also means that there isn't much funding around for small businesses to fund the other 90% of the apprenticeship.
Skillwise currently have funding in place for smaller businesses who don't pay the apprenticeship levy to take on an apprentice but this is at a premium and certainly won't last forever.
It’s pretty difficult to scale your business without staff. The Skillwise apprenticeship initiative is what entrepreneurs have been looking for. The right attitude, right skills and ready to add value. Fantastic concept. A no brainer.
Business Coach of the Year 2015
button and one of our team will be in touch in the next 24 - 48 hours to discuss how an apprentice could help you
Check out the testimonials from some of our businesses below:
What a fantastic idea! We frequently use apprentices from an accounting perspective but to have a marketing trained apprentice working within the business is a wonderful cost effective solution to help us grow even further. Considering what we would usually pay in recruitment and training fees, this is a real bargain!
’Recruiting an apprentice back in 2012 totally transformed my business. It’s an absolute must for any forward-thinking business, particularly now that they’ve got all this additional, specialist marketing training.
Video Strategy Expert | Business Video Expert
I think this is an amazing opportunity for any business owner. The chance to get an apprentice trained for you in specialist marketing skills is a brilliant idea.
Having an apprentice work in my business has made a real difference. I've got all the extra support that I need and can rely on them to look after my marketing whilst I'm out of the office. They're well trained and passionate about what they do.
