95% of next year’s UK workforce are already employed this year
“The September to November 2021 unemployed people per vacancy figure has fallen to a record 1.1”
“Reskilling could save firms £50k compared to hiring new talent”
Your future in many respects is already here. What we mean by this is that employers must start looking to their current workforce as an integral part of developing the skills they need to grow. The stats above tell the story – a perfect storm of a record number of vacancies and a limited number of candidates means that recruitment is a real challenge to employers. This year’s workforce will still be in place next year and skills increasingly sit with older employees. Employers need to recognise these facts and implement strategies to ease the reliance on recruitment and develop their current employees.
Thankfully, organisations have access to a wealth of funding, support and information to implement this, not least utilising Apprenticeship programmes in addition to other fully funded training available to achieve this.
Using Apprenticeship programmes for your current employees doesn’t mean their roles will completely change and they will be doing tasks you don’t want them to do. Training providers match the Apprenticeship standard to the role you need the employee doing on an Individualised Learning Plan. Likewise, this doesn’t mean they revert to Apprenticeship minimum wage.
Develop your Managers and create new leaders
Amongst the 750 Standards available are a range of programmes to develop your leaders with leadership and management Apprenticeships such as from Level 3 through to Level 7 post graduate level degree.
Elevate your team members into technical experts
Front line team members are experts. For example, your Digital Marketers generating leads and delivering content online can be developed to manage your range of campaigns and brand presence online via the Digital Marketing Level 6 (Integrated BSc Hons Degree) or utilise Training programmes for targeted skills like Cyber, Data Protection and IT.
Specialising in Tech and Digital Skills, TDM are government-funded (ESFA and WMCA) for both Apprenticeships and Adult Qualifications/Educational Programmes. This allows TDM to support your organisation to retain, reskill and recruit from Level 2 to BSc (Hons) Degree Level. Visit our website https://thedevelopmentmanager.com/ or email enquiries@tdm.co.uk to find out how to develop the skills in your people to drive digital transformation.