subject: An Apprenticeship Can Help You Get Ahead In The World [print this page] Upon leaving school the choices that are presented can often be a lot to handle, particularly for a sixteen year old. Often the prospect of getting a job can be far too daunting - after all, nobody wants to be stuck in an office for their whole life. This may be part of the reason why university has been so popular in the past few decades. Aside from all the wild stories, university offered the chance to postpone the inevitable job search as well as to learn about something that youre really interested in. However, it seems that now university fees have tripled, this prospect may not be one that holds as much appeal as perhaps it once did.
Even before university fees were increased, there were already some problems beginning to emerge. For example, with so many people going to university the value of a degree was considered by some to have dropped, and sure enough degrees came to need support from work experience - which of course is hard to get when employers are only hiring people that have already got experience. And as a result it we are left with many educated Britons that are overqualified for menial jobs and underqualified for career jobs.
So with university no longer attracting as many people as it once did it seems that the prospect of an apprenticeship is something of a nice middle ground between going straight into work and going to university. There are a number of benefits that come with taking on an apprenticeship, and no doubt many of you will be familiar with the phrase earn while you learn. An apprenticeship lets you do just this - while doing an apprenticeship you achieve three things; valuable work experience, necessary qualifications, and of course you get paid. The sort of security that an apprenticeship can provide is certainly something that cannot be matched by a university course and the prospects for moving forward will not be matched by most jobs.
By taking an apprenticeship you will be able to learn the inner workings of a business from the ground up. Not only will this provide a useful overview of how the business functions but it will also help you to decide exactly what area you would like to work in. You can also move from department to department meaning you will gain a wide variety of experience making you a versatile employee. In addition to this you will form many contacts and relationships that will no doubt prove to be useful.
