Apprenticeship

Upskill to grow career and business profitability

According to a new survey by Logic4training, becoming multi-skilled could be a good move for building services installers looking for a more profitable 2019 – over 75% of survey respondents stated increased profits as a result of upskilling. The survey, which set-out to discover how trades people developed their skillsets and the benefits this had to their business, demonstrated the popularity of diversifying beyond initial training. 87.5% of building services installers…

Learners can prove their compliance with standards and regulations in one click

For the first time, an internationally recognised City & Guilds Certificate in 18th Edition Wiring Regulations is accompanied by a verifiable Digital Credential. Ask any practising electrician, surveyor or consultant working in trades with an understanding of electrical wiring and they are likely to mention the IET 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671). Since the launch of an update to the standard and the accompanying City & Guilds 2382-18 –…

Blackpool firm welcomes new apprentices

BFW Management Ltd (Atlas) has announced two new additions to the firm after appointing Tom Amos as apprentice electrician and Charlie Allen as the new apprentice in mechanical engineering. The move follows the Blackpool-based business launching two new apprenticeship opportunities in partnership with Blackpool and The Fylde College (B&FC). Aged 17, Tom is fresh from leaving school earlier in the Summer. Tom has always had a passion to pursue a trade and…

No shocks in sparks’ salary survey

Electricians continue to lead the trades in pay, and they’re powering furthering ahead, new figures reveal. A spark’s average salary is £32,315, rising 5% on that posted for last year (£30,784), the 2019 Trades Salary Survey posted by TradeSkills4U shows. That’s the biggest rise among trades, although most have enjoyed significant pay hikes, the training body notes. Plumbers trail second (£31,055) and carpenters third (£27,236) then bricklayers, tillers plasterers, roofers…

Exmouth apprentice receives help from RGB

An apprentice electrician has won £250 to spend at the Exmouth branch of RGB Building Supplies to help him to build a kit of essential tools and accessories. In celebration of RGB Building Supplies’ employee and former apprentice Sarah Daniel winning the national BMF (Builders Merchants Federation) Young Achiever Award for 2018, the business launched a competition to support the next generation of tradesmen and women. Sarah had joined RGB…

Rhys lightning: SkillELECTRIC Gold recipient has winning words for would-be apprentices

Rhys Boni had worked in the electrotechnical sector on and off for some six years, “four of those in formal training and not always easy”, before he decided to enter SkillELECTRIC. “But being recognised as the best in the country at a national competition makes it all worthwhile. It doesn’t get any better,” he says. It’s not all about winning though, Rhys adds. “Just reaching the final is a huge…

Valuable work experience

Scolmore’s Ian Hunter tells us why the skills he learned as an electrical apprentice have continued to benefit him, even after he left the tools behind. Here at Electrical Apprentice, we like to examine just how influential electrotechnical apprenticeships have been to the successful careers of individuals around the industry. Here, Ian Hunter, Group Commercial Director at the Scolmore Group explains how his electrical apprenticeship led him from being on the tools to…