How to attract an entry-level employee
This article was published in People Management.
Whether it’s a millennial or a career changer, there’s never been a better – or more confusing – time to hire into junior roles. Enlightened employers share their experiences
In many ways, there has never been a more confusing time to recruit someone into an entry-level role. Despite years of steadfast attempts to simplify the system, it has never been more bureaucratic. Nor have the stats ever been more contradictory.
The apprenticeship levy was supposed to kickstart a sluggish apprentice market, but the number of people taking up offers in the three months after it was introduced dropped 61 per cent. Achieving its ambition to recruit three million apprentices before 2020 looks increasingly unlikely, while critics of the new funding system argue for reform – and fast. Almost a fifth of levy-paying organisations surveyed by the CIPD said they simply planned to write off the money that came out of their payroll for the levy as a tax, while 22 per cent had not yet decided how to spend it.
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