I know there’s a few recruiters in my stream and this might interest them. We allegedly have a shortage of ICT staff – developers, dev ops and infrastructure engineers. Belfast Met is offering free training to Level 2, Level 3 and Level 5 (Foundation Degree).
Yes, a free degree. On Day release.
So a savvy recruiter could sell “great candidates” who may not have the full spread of skills but who are great communicators, team players or other life experience and get them trained up over a period of time to be great employees.
Obviously a recruiter gets paid over an employee reaching their probation period. So, use the system to create the candidates you need with the skills your clients need.
We currently have 100 apprentices out there right now with companies of all sizes and we think we could recruit 200 more this year.
So, come along to this on Friday 29th May and speak to the Apprenticeship NI staff.