Choosing Your Apprenticeship

Are you the parent of a teenager who wants to find out more about the apprenticeships?

Do you need honest advice on whether an apprenticeship will help them get the career they really want?

This is the ONLY impartial and independent guide to apprenticeships. It tells you which industries apprenticeships are available in, how the courses are taught and what career prospects they can lead to – and helps you decide whether it really is the right qualification for your child.

Inside Choosing Your Apprenticeship, find information about the structure of apprenticeship programmes in professions including:

• Administration and professional
• Agriculture
• Construction
• Customer service, retailing and wholesaling
• Engineering
• Finance, insurance and real estate
• Food and drink
• Health and beauty
• Health, care and public services
• Hospitality
• Manufacturing
• Media and printing
• Recreation and travel
• Transportation

Choosing Your Apprenticeship  also includes details about how to apply for an apprenticeship, who apprenticeships are good for, and an outline of the apprenticeship system in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as England.

Combining hands-on experience and work-related learning, an apprentice can be a great way of learning about a profession on the job, developing skills, gaining a useful qualification and earning money at the same time. Whether your child is thinking about leaving school at 16 to get a job straight away or just isn’t sure what they want to do yet, an apprenticeship caters for each route – and this guide gives you impartial advice about what their career prospects will really be if they choose to take an apprenticeship.

Deciding which qualifications to take when you are a teenager can be tough, but Choosing Your Apprenticeship will ensure you and your child are well-placed to decide if an apprenticeship will set them on the path to the bright and successful career they desire.

For help and advice on choosing other post-14 qualifications, take a look at the other titles in the series: Choosing Your Diploma, Choosing Your GCSEs  and Choosing Your A Levels and other Post-16 Options.