00:00My name is Dean Coleman Walker. I'm Business Development Director here at
00:05APRI in Bradford. My role within the organisation is to support local
00:09businesses predominantly in engineering and manufacturing to attract apprentices
00:13to their organisations. Currently we have about 650 apprentices. We've taken on
00:19approximately 150 this year and the type of businesses that we work with are from
00:25oil and gas, food and drink, medical, defence engineering. I was an apprentice
00:30many many years ago and I have seen changes since that time and we're seeing
00:35more and more people wanting to go into apprenticeships now. We have in excess of
00:39700 applicants every year and it seems to be a better route for people in some
00:45aspects rather than going to university. We know a lot of people that apply to us
00:49that have been to uni and they can't find a job. Starting at grassroots level through
00:53an apprenticeship and building your way up through a company. It's a it's a great
00:56option. I'm a toolmaker apprentice at Denso Marston. I'm doing a level three
01:02apprenticeship and it's four years long. I did my GCSEs in engineering, manufacturing
01:09and design at UTC Leads and then I did an engineering T level in mechanics and
01:14everything else. My dream role would be to do either something in rail in the rail
01:21industry or in aerospace is that sort of where I'm going towards and being a tool
01:26maker apprentice that kind of covers a lot of ground because I'm using a lot of
01:30pneumatics and electronics you know machining. There's a huge skills gap in
01:36engineering and manufacturing that in the UK we're gonna have to plug and
01:40businesses due to that need they're offering more career advancements, better
01:46opportunities to upskill apprentices, looking at wider opportunities.
01:51This is the Sue Tech room and it's got Mazak CNC machining and right now I believe they're
01:59machining a bike pedal and you know the computers over here we're doing cam software and that's
02:07actually what Scott in the back is very knowledgeable. I started at college doing
02:11electrical and then I wanted to do something a bit harder and college just wasn't for me so
02:15found out about the apree and how they can solve an apprenticeship so came for open
02:19the evening, signed up for it, told Mason about it. At the moment I'm just in the
02:23training cell learning all the basics and eventually the more advanced stuff. I want
02:30to go into engineering and then eventually into sales. There are expectations to go
02:36on to an engineering apprenticeship. Most of our businesses are looking for
02:40people we grade four and above in maths, English and science however a lot of the
02:44businesses look for attitude. It's about why you want to get into this industry and
02:48that's a really important thing. They understand why they want to go into this.
02:52This is four years of their life and it's the it's the springboard really for the
02:57rest of their careers.
