Client Wanting Graduate Employees

Submitted by Simon on Mon, 02/11/2009 - 10:29pm

I have a client that is looking at training unemployed graduate or equivalent educational level people. They are exploring internships and the most suitable partnerships.

They deliver a wide range of specialist consultancy services to both the construction industry and the public sector and have a separate accredited Learning Academy.

The questions are:

1. During the training period can they remove the employee cost burden?

2. Having a sister company that is an accredited learning provider of higher level qualifications could they partner with a Welfare to Work provider to receive any financial benefits?

At the end of the training they would be interested in employing the trainees that are most capable in this field of consultancy.

Any thoughts would be most welcome.

Simon

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Submitted by Daniel O'Daniel (not verified) on Tue, 03/11/2009 - 8:00am.

1. Absolutely..... but if an employer wants to pay peanuts, they may recruit an endless supply of chimpanzees.

2. Of course.... but to maximise the financial benefit, all the "Training Provider" needs to do is to invite that a target partner takes someone on on a "Referred Basis" and need provide no financial benefits.

3. Bottom Line .... if an organisation is a Credible Employer, they will use the traditional route of Employing Someone rather than rely on the State.

Submitted by Daniel on Tue, 03/11/2009 - 11:37am.

Hmmm. A few of the commenters round here are getting increasingly unhelpful. I'll try and answer this one myself:

  1. There are a number of schemes around at the moment, but answering this would rely on more knowledge about the employer, the job roles, and the target groups. In particular, Future Jobs Fund is the big scheme and pays employee wages for up to six months, but is only available for social-purpose work, so you can't use FJF employees to make direct profits. It's possible to get perfectly good candidates through such routes, but there is a likelihood that they will have greater support needs to become fully productive
  2. Employment and learning offer something of a double-play for providers who have both, since it's possible to cross-refer between them, making customer recruitment substantially easier. I'm not aware of any providers that provide a genuinely holistic combined service, but that would presumably be the ideal to aim for
  3. There are many 'credible employers' who engage with state support, many who offer opportunities to disadvantaged groups, and many who offer internships. It usually takes a certain amount of work to manage this kind of engagement successfully, hence larger employers are often the main sources of these kinds of support. Having said that, the Conservatives have a proposal to place young people with sole traders
Submitted by Jewel Staite (not verified) on Tue, 24/11/2009 - 6:55pm.

It is always helpful to play Devils Advocate, to raise a subject (such as will the Government help us by providing peanuts to pay for Graduates to work for us), and look with bemusement as some respondees treat the initial posting as serious.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 30/01/2010 - 6:26pm.

Graduates need real work experience - employers are looking for people with a good work ethic and attitude. There is a need for an economic scheme that makes sense for both.

Submitted by Gerry Attric (not verified) on Sat, 30/01/2010 - 8:51pm.

The trouble with the UK economy is that has never been able to produce enough graduate type job vacancies to keep pace with the huge expansion of higher education.