Are you an employer with a difference? Are you committed to training through Apprenticeships?
Are Apprenticeships adding value to your business? Have Apprenticeships helped increase your company’s productivity, or led to more innovative ways of working?
Tell LSC all about it and you could win a prestigious national award.
If you can clearly show a dynamic approach to training, together with evidence of commercial gain and positive plans for Apprenticeship training in the future, this award is for you.
Who should enter?
Employers who, during 2006, have Learning and Skills Council funded apprentices within their organisation.
What makes a winner?
The Employer of the Year Award seeks to acknowledge and celebrate employers’ commitment to developing their workforce through Apprenticeships. This Award is split in to four categories to recognise the different approaches taken to deliver Apprenticeships in organisations of differing sizes.
These are:
- Micro Employer of the Year: 1 and 9 employees
- Small Employer of the Year: 10 to 49 employees
- Medium Employer of the Year: 50 to 249 employees
- Large Employer of the Year: over 250 employees
Judges are looking for employers that can clearly show the benefits they have gained from a commitment to training their workforce through Apprenticeships. In particular, those that can demonstrate the following:
Commitment:
- To training their workforce
- To embedding a training culture in their company
- To the range/number of Apprenticeship frameworks supported
- To future training and Apprenticeship development
Business benefits:
- The training has enabled the business to improve, grow and perhaps even survive
- The benefits are measurable and quantifiable
Best practice and transferability:
- The entrant is an exemplar, and has the potential to act as a role model for other employers
For large employers, in addition to the above, judges will expect to see:
- Evidence of activities above and beyond the baseline requirements of the Apprenticeship framework
- A range of innovative benefits for your apprentices
- What makes their Apprenticeship programme stand out from other employers’
As a winner you will enjoy:
- ‘Employer of the Year’ status in a given company size category
- The business kudos associated with winning an important national award and regional and national publicity
- Potential for further recognition as a national ‘role model’ for other employers
- Attendance at an Oscar-style celebratory awards ceremony at the London Hilton on Park Lane on the evening of 20 June 2007
Apply through the Apprenticeship Awards website for an Employer of the Year Award and gain the recognition you and your apprentices deserve.
Deadline for entries is Friday 23 February 2007.