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Apprenticeships campaign 2014/15
Apprentice – Question & Answer (Q&A)
Introduction
A Government marketing and PR campaign is underway to demonstrate the great
opportunities Apprenticeships offer to businesses and young people. We’d love you,
as an Apprentice, to be involved and tell us about Apprenticeships from your
perspective.
Purpose and use of Q&A
We would like to provide national and regional media with real stories, case studies
and quotes from Apprentices just like you who are living and working in England.
Below/over the page are a few questions we hope you will answer. Please give your
own, personal views about what it means to you to be an Apprentice.
Your contact details and answers will be kept on file for the Department for Business,
Innovation and Skills (BIS); the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) and our PR agency
(Engine). Journalists often ask us about Apprenticeships and they want to hear firsthand from real people, just like you!
We will always contact you for approval before passing on information to the media.
Your answers will not usually be sent to the media in this Q&A format.
We would also like to ask you to send us a workplace selfie as an expression of
pride in your Apprenticeship and workplace.
The selfie photo you submit may be used for the #workselfie map. This is a
Pinterest map displaying Apprenticeship selfies from all across England. Your selfie
might also to be sent to national and regional media for publication. Please see an
example below – please include your company logo somewhere in your selfie so
your workplace is easily identifiable.
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Your details and your consent
Name: [insert name]
Age: [insert age]
Number: [insert the best number to call you on]
Email: [insert the best email to contact you on]
From: [insert where you live now eg Hull, Leeds, Bournemouth]
Company: [insert the company you’re doing your apprenticeship with]
Company contact name: [insert name of your manager, or someone who manages
your company’s marketing/PR]
Company contact number: [insert number of your manager, or someone who
manages your company’s marketing/PR]
Apprenticeship role: [insert Apprenticeship job title eg Apprentice Software
Developer]
Joined: [insert when you joined]
I agree to give consent to my Q&A and contact details including name,
telephone number, Apprenticeship and workplace being kept on file for the
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); the Skills Funding
Agency (SFA) and their PR agency (Engine):
YES/NO [delete as appropriate]
I agree that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); the Skills
Funding Agency (SFA) and their PR agency (Engine) can pass on my
information to the media if I am asked for permission on every occasion:
YES/NO [delete as appropriate]
Typed or email signature: [Apprentice to insert here]
Date: [insert here]
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); the Skills Funding Agency
(SFA) and their PR agency (Engine) hold all personal data in a secure environment
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where it will only be accessed by those who need to see it. We will consult you
every two years on whether you would like to remain on our file, after which time it
will be securely destroyed.
If you have any questions or would like your information to be removed from our file
at any time please call the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on
0114 207 5153.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); the Skills Funding Agency
(SFA) and their PR agency (Engine) will keep a record of which media organisations
you agree we can give your contact details to, but if you no longer wish a media
organisation to hold your contact details please contact them directly yourself.
With our thanks
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Skills Funding Agency
Engine
Your Q&A
1. What were you doing before you started your Apprenticeship?
2. What appealed to you about [insert company]?
3. Did the range of Apprenticeships available surprise you?
4. What level Apprentice are you?
5. What qualifications have you got?
6. What is your current role; tell us about what you do on a day to day basis?
7. Why did you decide to do an Apprenticeship?
8. What interested you about this particular role?
9. How do you see your role developing?
10. How does [insert company] support your development?
11. What is the best part of the [insert company] culture?
12. What opportunities does the Apprenticeship offer outside your day to day
role?
13. What’s your favourite part of the job? Tell us your highlights.
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14. How did your friends and family react when you told them you wanted
to/were going to do an Apprenticeship?
15. What are your ambitions for the future? What job do you hope to be doing
in 10 years?
16. What is your dream job?
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