Apprenticeship Toolkit For Employers
The apprenticeship toolkit helps make training apprentices more productive, profitable, and sustainable.
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This toolkit has been designed to help employers in the construction and infrastructure (C&I) sector make their apprenticeships more enjoyable, cost-effective, less risky – and therefore generate a sustainable return for their businesses, faster.
Applying the toolkit will enable employers to better engage, equip and develop their apprentices, ultimately enabling businesses to realise a quicker return on their investment.
The tools
The Recruitment Framework gives businesses a structured, consistent way to assess candidates. It ensures decisions are based not only on availability, but on the potential, behaviours and fit that make a successful apprentice.
The Tools of the Trade provides businesses with four different options to ensure that their apprentices have the gear they need to contribute and learn, regardless of the apprentices’ personal financial circumstances.
The Apprenticeship Progression Framework helps businesses track and support apprentice growth through clear expectations, observable behaviours, and milestones that connect development to business value.
The Apprenticeship Schedule gives businesses a consistent monthly rhythm for developing apprentices, ensuring structured, ongoing growth.
The Coaching Playbook provides a clear, practical framework to develop apprentices through instruction, coaching, and mentoring.
Why use the toolkit?
This toolkit was developed on a simple principle:
Apprenticeships only work when both apprentices and employers benefit at every stage of the journey.
Allen + Clarke (the consultancy that developed this toolkit) spoke with apprentices and employers across different trades, sectors, and regions. During these conversations, the apprentices and employers explained the key challenges they face in ensuring that both apprentices and employers benefit from apprenticeships. They also explained the practices they use to overcome those challenges.
What Allen + Clarke found was that successful employers used certain practices to ensure that:
►they hired the right apprentices for their business,
►apprentices had the gear they needed to do their jobs well,
►apprentices were well supported and therefore progressed quickly through their trade qualification, and
►apprentices quickly became profitable employees.
This toolkit takes the best practices that employers used to achieve the outcomes for each stage and sets them out in a way that any employer could apply them in their own business.
The tools in this toolkit were tested with employers and apprentices to ensure that they are valuable and practical.
Crucially, none of these tools require you to make an up-front investment before trying them. You can give any of them a go, see for yourself whether they work for your business, and then decide whether you want to keep using them.
Behind the scenes, Allen + Clarke also developed and applied a Theory of Change and mechanisms of change to select what tools would be developed. If you're interested, you can find this on page 47. You can also find the toolkit’s design principles on page 49.
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