Recruiting the best – we can help you find the right people
Paragon Skills provides an apprentice recruitment service which supports you to find quality
candidates to join your business. Our apprenticeship recruitment service is designed to help you find
the right apprentice for your business, offering a personal, comprehensive and bespoke service. We
have worked with hundreds of employers to deliver high-quality apprenticeships in a range of
sectors including Care apprenticeships and Childcare apprenticeships.
Key benefits are:
- Support your managers in thinking ‘apprentice first’
- Targeted marketing and advertising to the 16-24 year old demographic
- Free and effective service driven by our recruitment experts
- Improve retention with quality candidates
- Free up time to focus on other business priorities
- Remote video interviewing
- Information on all the latest employer incentives
How does it work?
- Tell us your recruitment needs, when you want the role(s) to start and any special requirements you have.
- We’ll advertise the vacancies, screen and interview potential applicants based on your criteria and supply you with a number of suitable candidates to choose from.
- The next step interviews. We will arrange these for you at a time that suits you.
- Once you have appointed your new employee we will enrol them on to their apprenticeship
programme, provide on-going support to them throughout their qualification, to ensure they
are learning and becoming a valuable asset to your business.
You can view our current apprenticeship vacancies here
Top tips
Plan
• Have a clear plan in place to enable effective training, mentoring and management
Meet
• Ask questions about their commitment, adaptability, determination, ambition and honesty
• Mindset is more important than skill set at this stage
Onboard
• A structured onboarding plan is essential
• Provide consistent and clear communication and set SMART goals linked with their apprenticeship training
Support
• Regular one-to-ones and extra attention is key to getting the most out of your apprentice
• Assigning an apprentice mentor is also a great idea
Adapted ways of working
You can now interview candidates remotely via our secure video interviewing software.
We have moved our enrolment process fully online so that apprentices can get a full induction to their programme and your organisation with our Personal Tutors via Microsoft Teams.
We are also delivering the vast majority of our programmes via remote 1-to-1 sessions, workshops and via our Bud Learner Management System. Personal Tutors set work, track it and can even chat with learners through the Bud app to ensure progress is consistent throughout their programme.
Get in touch. Let’s get the conversation started!
