Time to go back to school
Automotive businesses need to form closer ties with schools to showcase the career opportunities within the industry, and protect the pipeline of new talent.
Ingenia Recruitment has been working closely with NEMTA (North East Motor Trade Apprenticeships), and concluded that teachers and students don’t understand the career opportunities within the motor trade.
Businesses need to counter this by organising workplace visits, industry talks and facilitating work experience
Steve Shaw, director of Ingenia Recruitment, said: “There are not enough good quality applicants for apprenticeships in the motor trade. In reality, communicating with this year’s leavers is too late, as many will already have been talked into going into further education. We need to be actively engaging with people as young as 12 and 13. I know for a fact that many people are advised to go into sixth form or onto college, when in many cases, an apprenticeship would be a better route.
“If dealers and bodyshops don’t promote their business to young people, why would anyone be surprised when other businesses who do, get all the best applicants.”
