Recently we read a report suggesting that students following the Apprentice pathway could earn up to £50,000 more in their lifetime than other students who decide to take the University path (the exception being qualifications gained at the UK’s top universities). Is this challenging new ideas or telling us something we already knew?
B2P asks what is happening to the employment market place? Could the recent rise in Apprentice Schemes be a result of employers of UK companies rating qualified apprentices as 15% more employable than those with other qualifications? Then there’s recent CIPD research which has suggested the increase in graduate numbers have outstripped the creation of more high-skilled jobs and as a result the UK has too many over-qualified graduates entering non-graduate jobs. So this begs the question what jobs will our qualified graduates end up doing?
On the 19th January 2015 The Times featured an article about Milton Keynes “4 roundabouts per square mile, 20 million trees and one of the largest shopping malls in the world. The Enigma Code was cracked there, it has 17 ponds containing the rare great crested newt and 6 famous concrete cows in its centre” ….but that’s not all….Milton Keynes is famous for something else this week! One of the highest spurts in recruitment in the country!
Last July we asked “Would you make a major purchase without researching it first? Would you make a major purchase from someone you didn’t know……?” This article referred to your recruitment decisions, one of the most important and costly decisions you can make in business. It is estimated the average cost of making a poor recruitment decision is on average between £9,000 and £15,000. At Breakthrough2Performance we would like to challenge this average and put it to the test! It’s not just the tangible £’s that we should be counting – what about the intangible often overlooked costs?
Company jargon is awash with ways of positively describing organisational change and challenges with words such as transition, transformation, right-sizing, best and final offer – but what about our employees – often the descriptions used are far from positive….
With claims that in 2013 the UK economy expanded by 1.9%, the fastest growth since the financial crisis and GDP rising by 0.7% in the final three months of 2013. Breakthrough2Performance asks if you are feeling the difference in your workplace?
Schools are being accused of reinforcing gender stereotyping….
It is anticipated that 1/5th of UK employers expect their 2013 growth plans to be curtailed by a shortage of skills with 38% of UK companies struggling to recruit the right talent, citing lack of technical skills as the main problem.
Would you make a major purchase without researching it first? Would you make a major purchase from someone you didn’t know……?
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