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U-Explore supports Apprenticeships

By U-Explore on 17 February 2012, 10:17am

You may have seen that the fifth annual National Apprenticeship Week took place earlier this month. It's the time when all eyes are on Apprenticeships and raising the profile amongst employers, individuals, teachers, parents and the media.

To celebrate the week-long event, U-Explore visited Hull Training to take a look at Apprenticeships in action and consider how U-Explore can be used to support young people to learn more about the world of Apprenticeships.

With over 1,000 job profiles available, complete with detailed entry and progression routes, and 360-degree Virtual Tours of businesses and training providers, U-Explore offers young people a behind-the-scenes look at the environments they could find themselves in throughout their Apprenticeship.

Margaret Woodcock, Business & Partnership Manager at Hull Training, said: "There's many benefits to doing an Apprenticeship. Obviously you're earning while you're working - you're working alongside real people so you're learning the skills and the knowledge that you're going to need to do that job and it's just an amazing opportunity.

"There are two really great pathways on U-Explore to help young people. The first would be to take a look in My Options and to explore a little bit more about what an Apprenticeship is, to see if it's something that you would be interested in. It's really good - it gives you an oversight of what you would be doing.

"The second thing would be to look in the Job Bank to start exploring what kind of jobs might interest you and then you can start to map. If you find a job you like... you can then find the Apprenticeship route that suits you best."

Click here to watch the U-Explore Supports... Apprenticeships video case study in full.

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With a product offering described as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted, U-Explore is a groundbreaking provider of online careers information, advice and guidance (IAG) for schools and colleges.

Packed with thousands of rich media and learning resources, U-Explore provides reality-based careers IAG and supports a wide range of 14-19 education requirement. U-Explore promotes independent learning, however it can also be used as a valuable tool to support careers, work experience, enterprise, PLTS and work-related learning.

In addition, U-Explore's new and unique people and product service offer - Everything Connects - is the fully managed, flexible and responsive guidance professional service, combining one-to-one support with U-Explore's complete range of educational products. Enhancing careers and IAG provision in schools, Everything Connects is perfect in the new landscape for IAG.

Visit http://www.u-explore.com or contact us on 01709 538120 to find out what we can do for your school or college.

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