James and Noel from Creative Alliance will share their learning in what makes a successful apprenticeship that leads to young people starting their career, securing full time work and then progressing within the sector AND has helped creative organisations find the right talent to grow their business. This will include their plans to introduce L6 and L7 degree equivalent apprenticeships in 2025.
They will cover:
• What an apprenticeship is – and isn’t! Including what to expect of an apprenticeship training provider.
• Tips for successful recruitment & onboarding;
• Tips for how to work with the training provider to:
– create a bespoke training plan
– develop someone to learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours you need them to have to work to your standards and within your culture
– ensure they succeed and enter the workforce with you or others.
This session will be particularly useful for Any Founder/MD, Business Leader/Owner, Talent Development Manager, Head of Culture/HR looking to grow their business through recruiting and investing in new talent or developing the knowledge and skills of existing members of the team.
About Creative Alliance
Creative Alliance have the largest portfolio of creative apprenticeships of any provider in the country. Based in Birmingham, they are increasingly working across the country with clients such as Amazon, Ambassador Theatre Group, Global, ITV, McCann, National Theatre & Sony as well as hundreds of micro and SME businesses.
Join James Ellis (Business Development Manager) and Noel Dunne (Director) for this valuable session.
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running one-way webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
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