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Offline Rmachines

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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #10 on: 22 February 2012, 21:17 »
Just over £3 per hour for first year,  £4.50ish  2nd and £6.80 odd for 3rd.   
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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #11 on: 22 February 2012, 21:17 »
Im currently doing an apprenticeship and I'm on £6 an hour  :smiley:

Edit: and I'm in my first year
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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #12 on: 22 February 2012, 21:17 »
This is good we need more younger people trained up, there is going to be a serious shortage of skilled workers in a few decades!
I'm trying to set up a research grant for my old Uni to do some work for me they learn and supply me with some R&D cheap to do NO, invest in the future YES!

Just don't fire any of them 10 other workers because young labour is cheap  :evil:

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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #13 on: 22 February 2012, 21:25 »
No chance of firing the existing guys, they are fully trained and time served engineers and I would be lost without them!

Ideally I would take on a couple of guys who could walk straight into the job but my industry isn't like that so alot of training is required to get someone up to a high standard.

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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #14 on: 22 February 2012, 21:28 »
No chance of firing the existing guys, they are fully trained and time served engineers and I would be lost without them!

Ideally I would take on a couple of guys who could walk straight into the job but my industry isn't like that so alot of training is required to get someone up to a high standard.

Just remember being young and a bit rough means paitence, give them all the chances they can have mate!
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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #15 on: 22 February 2012, 21:52 »
Yeah I know what you are saying, I want someone who wants to learn and has an interest in what we do. Of course they get the sh!t jobs too but that's part of starting at the bottom, we have all been there!

My head engineer has been with the company for 27 years, he started on YTS (remember that?). This was before my time mind!

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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #16 on: 22 February 2012, 22:00 »
Out of interest what type of work do you do?
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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #17 on: 22 February 2012, 22:12 »
Out of interest what type of work do you do?

and finally someone asks the question  :grin:

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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #18 on: 22 February 2012, 22:26 »
Very varied, I am currently working on a project where we have put a new tv aerial on a hotel, then digitally multiplexed some resort channels into this freeview system (running through cat6 from the reception), running that hotel off this system then sending the same signals via fibre optic about a mile and a half to their second hotel, running the second hotel off the aerial on the first hotel, then sending the signals around the compex to about 50 rental properties. We are also putting in about 50 new Panasonic televisions. Then we are turning both hotels and the village wireless for guest internet access.

My company is a Panasonic Service Centre, we are Sky agents, we maintain several housing associations IRS systems, we install CCTV, Commercial Wi-Fi, Satellite broadband, commercial catering equipment, domestic aerials, televisions, Bose dealership etc, etc

I have so much work on and coming up that I seriously need to think about more staff. I am currently working on a deal where we maintain 2000 properties for another housing association, on top of the ones we already maintain. I have also taken on a 5 year programme of work with 4 major contractors. I design and install the commercial stuff and I am having to put people off for months before I can even look at their projects.

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Re: Apprenticeships (Employer)
« Reply #19 on: 22 February 2012, 22:32 »
Im currently doing an apprenticeship and I'm on £6 an hour  :smiley:

Edit: and I'm in my first year

You can be paied as much as they want to pay you but there is a minimum which i think is awfully low in the first year.
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