DWP recruitment

TELLIT01

DWP is currently seeking to recruit 2000 'apprentices'. Potential recruits need to have been on Job Seekers for 6 months and have no higher qualification than GCSE. Also the apprenticeship training period is 12 months as opposed to 2 years on previous apprenticeship intakes.
DWP are clearly seeking the cream of the crop as future employees!

custardy

TELLIT01 wrote: »

DWP is currently seeking to recruit 2000 'apprentices'. Potential recruits need to have been on Job Seekers for 6 months and have no higher qualification than GCSE. Also the apprenticeship training period is 12 months as opposed to 2 years on previous apprenticeship intakes.
DWP are clearly seeking the cream of the crop as future employees!

Seems just what some long term unemployed(Donnajunkie) were crying out for.

p00hsticks

TELLIT01 wrote: »

DWP is currently seeking to recruit 2000 'apprentices'. Potential recruits need to have been on Job Seekers for 6 months and have no higher qualification than GCSE. Also the apprenticeship training period is 12 months as opposed to 2 years on previous apprenticeship intakes.
DWP are clearly seeking the cream of the crop as future employees!

do you have a link for this ?

tomtontom

https://www.gov.uk/civil-service-apprenticeships

Applications closed for this year. I think it is a fantastic scheme, an opportunity to build a career in the civil service and even move on to the Fast Stream once you've completed the scheme.

p00hsticks

tomtontom wrote: »

https://www.gov.uk/civil-service-apprenticeships

Applications closed for this year. I think it is a fantastic scheme, an opportunity to build a career in the civil service and even move on to the Fast Stream once you've completed the scheme.

I was aware of these opportunities but I'm not convinced this is what the OP is talking about, which is why I asked them to provide a link.

These apprenticeships do say that you can't have a degree but there's nothing about having to have been on Jobseekers for at least six months or not having any qualification higher than a GCSE, which is what the OP is saying. Plus the scheme has been closed for a while now, whereas the OP refers to current recruitment. So presumably they are talking about something different ?

Hopefully they'll come back with more information.

TELLIT01

Sorry I don't have a link. It's information passed to me by a former colleague within DWP. The recruitment I'm referring to is for staff at the lower levels of the organisation. Certainly not those on any kind of fast-track.
Sorry for being cagey but I have to make sure my sources remain secure.
The underlying point I was trying to make was that of restricting the opportunities to those at the lower end of the education spectrum (I'm not saying they're thick), when the jobs they will be required to undertake are potentially far from straight forward.

geminilady

Well they will be trained that is why it is called an apprenticeship.Maybe they are trying to get the long term unemployed into work? people with higher qualifications will not struggle as hard to find jobs .I presume this is just for young people?

TELLIT01

The training period has been cut from 2 years to 1 year, and as I understand it, there is no guarantee of work at the end of the year. It seems more like an exercise in reducing the count on JSA than anything else.