A Big Tick for the National Apprenticeship Week
08-03-2013
From 11th – 15th March the National Apprenticeship Week starts across the country and Fashion Enter, the leading provider in Britain for Fashion and Textiles, is celebrating the week in style.
Working closely with Creative Skillset and the “We Can Do it Campaign” National Apprenticeship Week kicks off in style by offering 10 jobs in fashion for:
Office Manager – Atelier Tammam
Assistant Pattern Cutter – Atelier Tammam
Showroom Assistant – MACANDI Showroom
Showroom Assistant – Felicities Ltd
Fashion PA – Jonathan Saunders
Product Assistant – Jonathan Saunders
Studio Assistant – Marios Schwab
Pattern Cutter – Sophia Kokosalaki
On Monday the doors of the Fashion Studio are open once again for apprentices and employers to review the training facilities which include state of the art sewing, fusing and pressing machinery and a 19 m cutting table for the apprentices to train on.
On Tuesday the doors of the Factory are open for apprentices and employers to review how a manufacturing company that produces 5000 garments a week actually works. There are almost 50 employees manufacturing high quality production for companies such as Asos.com and John Lewis.
On Wednesday we will be attending the Haringey jobs and careers fair to offer advice and guidance on the fantastic opportunities available on the Fashion and Textiles Apprenticeship programme.
On Thursday Creative Skillset will celebrate the launch of the first ever Higher Level Apprenticeships in advertising & marketing communications, creative & digital media and fashion & textiles. Apprentices from Fashion Enter will be attending and taking part in this informal and interactive event, showcasing the outstanding work apprentices can do for businesses!
Friday is an open day to review the teaching staff at the Fashion Studio and meet the latest apprentices from New Look, asos.com and House of Fraser
Fashion Enter has achieved the training mark of excellence by Creative Skillset, The Tick Award and prides itself on working to the highest possible quality standards in training for both employers and apprentices.
House of Fraser hired their first apprentice this year:
‘This is the first time House of Fraser have taken on an apprentice of this type and we have been delighted with the support and guidance we received from Fashion Enter.
We were supplied with an excellent shortlist of suitable candidates, all of which had a good understand of the scheme and performed well at interview. Fashion Enter managed the candidates throughout the process and arranged all interviews on our behalf.
Once we had selected a candidate, Fashion Enter continued to manage the process through to them starting with us. They took the effort to visit House of Fraser to meet the team and explain, in great detail, the course detail and timeframes.
We are delighted with the performance of our apprentice to date and the way the process was handled has certainly contributed to them settling in to the business smoothly.
We feel the apprentice programme has been a great addition to our talent strategy and sure it will become a key component of our business for years to come.’
ASOS hired two further apprentices this year:
‘Asos prides itself in being passionate about people and developing talent for the future. It was because of this that we jumped at the opportunity to work with Fashion Enter on the roll out of the first National Apprenticeship Scheme in apparel back in January 2011.
We worked very closely with Fashion Enter to support the launch of the programme and we regularly discussed the scheme of work planned and attended joint meetings with CHENEL. We also ran a joint assessment day together to highlight those applicants who we thought would be ideal.
Our first Apprentices have since left us after both successfully completing their courses. One of these Apprentices, Alfie Falconer, was such an asset that she is now a permanent employee at asos, as Assistant Technologist on our specialist departments.
We have now recruited 2 new Apprentices, Emily Dale and Julia Martinez, who are already settling nicely into the Technical team, and to their course.
Fashion Enter has been incredibly supportive throughout this time. We have regular meetings to discuss progress, not only of our Apprentices, but of the 13 modules within the course itself. We would like to consider that we have developed a solid partnership with a collaborative approach to this fantastic opportunity for young people.’
Jessica Becker completed her Fashion and Textiles Apprenticeship in July 2012:
‘I have always loved fashion but never really thought about a carer in fashion until I saw an advert by Fashion Enter.
I went along for the interview and was really interested and inspired by the presentation Fashion Enter did at their Factory in N4. Before I knew I was working at Loaded with Gabby and I have just learnt so much. Fashion is certainly not about pretty illustrations and design. There is so much more behind a garment that is hanging up in the shops
I love my job. The apprenticeship was hard work but I learnt so much that you can’t find in text books. I understand about what fabrics go into what styles and,more importantly, why I know about faults and what are critical faults and non critical. I can look at a garments think that’s not right when its on a body. Better still I can say why it’s not right and put it right
Now I have a full time job with Gabby at Loaded in the West End. I feel as though the world of fashion is my oyster and it all started with me seeing Fashion Enters advert!’
For further information regarding the National Apprenticeship Week please email jenni@fasion-enter.com or click here
