Apprenticeship

Extracts from his book, The London Apprentice Nothing like turning up for an important occasion only to find the front of your trousers are giving away. A safety pin embarrassingly provided for me from a lady at reception was my saving grace — or so I thought. My indenturing ceremony…

Apprentice 2022 D Regina Espinosa González “Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.” This week has been a complete mental challenge. The task was to choose an open source issue and fix it. The underlying fact was that choosing the right…

Apprentice 2022 D Regina Espinosa González My focus for this week was all about open source and cracking the key to understanding other people’s code. As a developer, getting inside the guts of other’s logic may be challenging, unless there’s documentation regarding the main points. …

Have you ever felt like you know where you want to end up, but have no idea on how to actually get there? For school leavers, this is can be the anxiety-ridden dream that keeps them up at night. If you find yourself asking how you go from school uniform…

Morgan Denham, Senior Insight Analyst Back in Year 13, as I was coming to the end of my A levels, I’d been weighing up the ‘what-ifs’ of not going to university. I didn’t need to, right? It’s expensive and, to be honest, despite having all my offers, I wasn’t even…

While it’s still National Careers Week here in the UK, I wanted to answer a question I have been asked several times over. That is, why am I doing an apprenticeship as a 25-year-old? The simple answer? I felt it was the best option for me. However, to go deeper…

Despite the new stories pouring out about tech layoffs, there is still a huge demand for digital skills. Government data shows 82% of all jobs in the UK list digital skills as a key requirement. But despite the need and the higher salary ranges listed in job adverts employers still struggled to fill one-third of these vacancies last year. This is forcing a lot of organisations to reassess their tech recruitment practices by looking toward new tech talent pipelines, shifting away from more traditional candidates and broadening the pool of talent to include candidates from alternate education paths.