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14.01.2013

A young apprentice - not as scary as you may think & if it works for Sir Alan Sugar.....

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Jackie Whittle, Jackie Whittle Consultancy

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If yours is a business that wants to expand, has optimism for the future but perhaps is shackled by the current economic environment, than the last thing you want to do is take on an apprentice, right? Wrong. It’s precisely to overcome this bottle neck in new talent, that the government is pushing AGE (Apprentice Grant for Employers) a new funding initiative, to encourage small to medium sized companies (

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I am a CIPD qualified HR Consultant and gained a wealth of my 20+ years experience working for a global private health care provider.

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