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Why you can't afford NOT to have an apprentice...

Apprenticeships are the proven way to train your workforce. Apprenticeships can make your organisation more effective, productive and competitive by addressing your skills gaps directly, even in uncertain economic times.

Training an apprentice is more cost effective than hiring skilled staff, leading to lower overall training and recruitment costs. Apprenticeships deliver skills designed around your business needs. They also help you develop the specialist skills you need to keep pace with the latest technology and working practices in your sector.

Apprentices tend to be eager, motivated, flexible and loyal to the company that invested in them. Remember, an apprentice is with you because they want to be - they have made an active choice to learn on the job and a commitment to a specific career.

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Help retain your apprentice and give them a fantastic start to their career?

Supporting apprentices with tool purchases not only helps forge their commitment and loyalty right at the start, but also increases productivity and efficiency earlier in their apprenticeship.

To assist in this, many employers set-up Tool Purchasing Plans or Retention Schemes to help apprentices manage their tool purchases in a controlled way:

• Tool Purchasing Plans are agreements that ensure a portion of their salary is set aside for tool purchasing. Additionally, the VAT portion of the purchase can also be claimed back via normal company procedures, thus helping the apprentice when money is tight
• Click HERE TO DOWNLOAD a Tool Purchase Plan template that you can modify for your own use
• As a Retention incentive, some employers also choose not to charge their apprentices for the tools, and instead, issue them on a permanent loan basis until they are qualified, or as a reward for achieving key milestones

How we can help...

Working directly with the leading tool manufacturers, Apprentice Zone has sourced a selection of high quality, heavily discounted tools and equipment that are aligned to the critical stages of an apprenticeship; from an apprentice starting a fresh, right through to completion and beyond...

Click below to see just 'some' of the tools, equipment and products we can provide!