This bank holiday Sunday saw our Reading Academy take part in the Royals Cup, Berkshire’s premier corporate six-a-side football tournament.

The tournament, which is held at the Madejski Stadium, is an annual event which allows companies to enter their own chosen teams in order to win the Royals cup trophy. Companies such as Audi, Quintiles and DHL all took part in the competition as a way of increasing some brand awareness, networking with other companies who are in partnership with Reading FC, and also to participate in a fun company day out.

The day began with a big group breakfast in one of the Reading FC conference halls, to give the teams a chance to chat to each other before the tournament began. After the initial meet up the tournament began, with our Apprentices taking part in 5 matches. Sadly our team didn’t make it to the final, but it was a great opportunity to make new connections and a great chance for our Apprentices to walk out and play on the Reading pitch.

The Reading team was led by Academy Recruitment Executive Tanveer Bhatti. He had this to say, “It was definitely a fun worthwhile event. We had a good opportunity to network with other businesses, while also getting the opportunity to play on the Reading FC pitch. For any football fan it’s an amazing chance to play on a professional pitch.

“There was something for everyone, a fun day out for the whole family. We’d love to take part next year!”

Congratulations for doing so well Reading, let’s hope we get a victory next time around!

You’ll now find a 3aaa Academy in Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Croydon, Derby, Guildford, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Reading, Romford, Sheffield, Southampton, Swindon, Tamworth, Warwick, Watford and Worcester.

Academies will soon be opening in Bradford, Gloucester, Stoke and York.

If you are an Employer looking to transform your business, email: employnow@3aaa.co.uk or a young person looking to take your first steps into an exciting career in IT, Digital Marketing, Accountancy, Business Administration, Financial Services or Technical Sales, email: applynow@3aaa.co.uk.

Alternatively, find out more about our Apprenticeship programmes: 0844 504 3174 or www.3aaa.co.uk

3aaa Nottingham Academy, have committed to a local initiative called ‘Nottingham Jobs Pledge’ to help reduce youth unemployment and engage with young people throughout the Nottingham Region. Launched last year the Nottingham Jobs Pledge has attracted 300 local businesses with its mission being that youth unemployment isn’t just a community issue but also businesses one. The region has a wealth of untapped talent and creativity on the doorstep and local businesses need to take advantage of that to help provide young people with life changing opportunities and help grow the city’s success.

3aaa Nottingham attended the Jobs Pledge Event on 19th May which was held at the City Council. The event was attended by a large number of delegates from local business and schools. Nottingham Academy Manager Jim Horne was presented with a certificate of pledge membership after signing a commitment to this local initiative.

Jim Horne stated “This is a fantastic local initiative that brings together local business and education providers to focus and work together to reduce unemployment within young people and drive greater development of the local economy”.

The event was hosted by Nottingham City council and introduced by Councillor Nick McDonald (NCC portfolio holder for Jobs and Growth) and presentations from key note speakers from local business and education providers.

You’ll now find a 3aaa Academy in Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Croydon, Derby, Guildford, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Reading, Romford, Sheffield, Southampton, Swindon, Tamworth, Warwick, Watford and Worcester.

Academies will soon be opening in Bradford, Gloucester, Stoke and York.

If you are an Employer looking to transform your business, email: employnow@3aaa.co.uk or a young person looking to take your first steps into an exciting career in IT, Digital Marketing, Accountancy, Business Administration, Financial Services or Technical Sales, email: applynow@3aaa.co.uk.

Alternatively, find out more about our Apprenticeship programmes: 0844 504 3174 or www.3aaa.co.uk.

 Our Maidstone team attended one of the UK’s biggest and most successful business to business exhibition events on Wednesday. It was an event that encouraged entrepreneurship and business with almost every company in the area being represented.

The daylong event was filled with numerous networking breaks and motivational workshops, which left attendees feeling inspired, while also allowing them the opportunity to expand their business.

Maidstone’s academy manager, Juliet Shand, could not have been happier with the success of the day, “We’ve got piles and piles of business cards sitting on our desks! All of these great leads will be turned into good business now, what an amazing event to be a part of.”

Not only were there dozens of new faces to see, the Maidstone team also saw numerous 3aaa Apprentices in attendance with their employers. Kelly Culver, one of our most ambitious digital marketing Apprentices was quick to say hello and have a quick selfie with Juliet, whilst tweeting, “I love my Apprenticeship”.  Juliet was elated to see such a large number of our Apprentices at the event, “That’s the mark of our success. Seeing how far they’ve come and how well they’re doing, you couldn’t ask for a better turn out”. She added.

Through establishing new leads and spreading the word about the outstanding opportunities that 3aaa offer, Maidstone Academy have really stimulated awareness of Apprenticeships. By bringing exciting new opportunities to young people and employers across the country, 3aaa continues to be the Apprenticeship provider of choice. With such big successes this year, we believe 3aaa’s accomplishments in next year’s Kent 2020 will be even greater!

You’ll now find a 3aaa Academy in Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Croydon, Derby, Guildford, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Reading, Romford, Sheffield, Southampton, Swindon, Tamworth, Warwick, Watford and Worcester.

Academies will soon be opening in Bradford, Gloucester, Stoke and York.

If you are an Employer looking to transform your business, email: employnow@3aaa.co.uk or a young person looking to take your first steps into an exciting career in IT, Digital Marketing, Accountancy, Business Administration, Financial Services or Technical Sales, email: applynow@3aaa.co.uk.

Alternatively, find out more about our Apprenticeship programmes: 0844 504 3174 or www.3aaa.co.uk

A recent survey of 555 employers by Redshift Research has endorsed the Apprenticeship scheme in England and highlighted the benefits that employers are seeing on a daily basis as they look to take their businesses forward.

Feedback stated that ‘Apprenticeships can improve employee loyalty to a company as well as increase business opportunities – so reckons the government, which has rolled out nine industry-designed degree apprenticeships to bring together the best of higher and vocational education’. Employers around the country are increasingly seeing the value of hiring Apprentices as the young people become pivotal to forming the pipeline of their future talent and allowing them to mould their workforce exactly how they like.

The report also discussed the loyalty that Apprentices offer a business as 56 per cent of those surveyed say that their Apprentices stay longer than other recruits in the business. Within this group, 59 per cent say that this is due to the training that is provided and more than half believe that it is down to the Apprentices having the ability to learn and grow in the business from the bottom up.

Many employers also commended the fact that taking on Apprentices marks their business out from the crowd, with a third saying that by taking on Apprentices they have been able to differentiate themselves from their competitors.

Now is the time to recruit an Apprentice and provide your business with an innovative edge whilst setting the foundations for your future workforce.

You’ll now find a 3aaa Academy in Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Croydon, Derby, Guildford, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Reading, Romford, Sheffield, Southampton, Swindon, Tamworth, Warwick, Watford and Worcester.

Academies will soon be opening in Bradford, Gloucester, Stoke and York.

If you are an Employer looking to transform your business, email: employnow@3aaa.co.uk or a young person looking to take your first steps into an exciting career in IT, Digital Marketing, Accountancy, Business Administration, Financial Services or Technical Sales, email: applynow@3aaa.co.uk.

Alternatively, find out more about our Apprenticeship programmes: 0844 504 3174 or www.3aaa.co.uk

In partnership with Reading Football Club, 3aaa has once again provided a great career opportunity to the inspiring and ambitious Christopher Dovey, a Digital Marketing Apprentice from Reading who suffers with Cystic Fibrosis.

3aaa’s Reading academy, which recently celebrated its official grand opening in March, saw the undeniable potential in Christopher and believed that he would be an excellent fit for the much admired employer, Reading Football Club.

Reading FC, a strong business partner of 3aaa, have been nothing but impressed by Christopher’s drive and ambition. Adam Benson of Reading FC had this to say, “Christopher has really settled into the team, we could not be happier to have him on board. We expect great things from him”.

Christopher Dovey, who is 18 and working within the Digital Marketing team at Reading Football Club, has thrived within his new role. He commented “My whole experience with 3aaa has been amazing, they took the time to really get to know me and now I have a fantastic employer in Reading Football Club. There aren’t many people who can say that they get to work for the team that they love and support, it is the perfect job. It is a job that a lot of people my age would love to have, so I really am so appreciative of the opportunities I’ve been given. I’m learning new skills every day and I’m earning a wage while I’m at it – I can’t thank 3aaa enough”.

3aaa wastes no time in matching the right employer with the right Apprentice. Within days, Christopher’s CV was received, reviewed, he was then invited in for interview and finally placed in Reading FC, all in quick succession.

3aaa is a success story that is changing the lives of young people on a daily basis. 3aaa provide Apprenticeships in professional services including Accountancy, IT, Social Media, Business Administration, Financial Services and Technical Sales.

You’ll now find a 3aaa Academy in Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Croydon, Derby, Guildford, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Reading, Romford, Sheffield, Southampton, Tamworth, Warwick, Watford and Worcester.

Academies will soon be opening in Bradford, Gloucester, Stoke, Swindon and York.

If you are an Employer looking to transform your business, email: employnow@3aaa.co.uk or a young person looking to take your first steps into an exciting career in IT, Digital Marketing, Accountancy, Business Administration, Financial Services or Technical Sales, email: applynow@3aaa.co.uk.

Alternatively, find out more about our Apprenticeship programmes: 0844 504 3174 or www.3aaa.co.uk

As part of our ongoing partnership with Computacenter, IT Apprentices Josh Hill and Bradley Renwick have given their thoughts on their journeys so far:

‘We started with Computacenter on the 17th November which seems  a very long time ago now! On our first day we went to the Manchester branch, getting collected from home at 06:30 in the morning. We were quite nervous as we didn’t know what to expect at all and were also worried that we might have to go to Manchester every single day.

At the end of of the first day we were a little overwhelmed as it had been complete information overload all day, there was a lot of paperwork to fill in as well as online inductions to complete. It was good to meet the management team so that we knew all of the faces if they came to see us in the future and we were feeling much more comfortable about things by the end of the day. By the time we got home, we were exhausted due to the early start, lots of listening and not a lot of sleep the night before!

Over the next few days we carried on with our induction and got to understand more about what would be expected of us and what the role of a customer engineer was. We got the chance to meet some of the engineers and get an overview of the different customers and services that Computacenter deliver in the North region. There was still an awful lot of information to take in!

Now that we have been in our placements for a little while, we are starting to understand much more about what an engineer does and also becoming more confident when meeting new people and visiting customers. We didn’t think we would meet as many new people as we have done and going to Hatfield recently has opened our eyes even more about how big Computacenter is and the opportunities there are.

Our 3 things that we have most enjoyed so far are; Learning the technical aspect of the role, meeting the other engineers and some of the office ‘banter’ that goes with this and lastly it’s been really good to get a new perspective on working life in a full time role.

Working with experienced engineers has been very helpful towards building up our knowledge and confidence in dealing with customer calls. It is a completely different customer environment compared to our previous jobs but we feel like we have coped with this change very well and we are both looking forward to the upcoming months with Computacenter.’

Bradley Renwick and Josh Hill

You’ll now find a 3aaa Academy in Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Croydon, Derby, Guildford, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Reading, Romford, Sheffield, Southampton, Tamworth, Warwick, Watford and Worcester.

Academies will soon be opening in Bradford, Gloucester, Stoke, Swindon and York.

If you are an Employer looking to transform your business, email: employnow@3aaa.co.uk or a young person looking to take your first steps into an exciting career in IT, Digital Marketing, Accountancy, Business Administration, Financial Services or Technical Sales, email: applynow@3aaa.co.uk.

Alternatively, find out more about our Apprenticeship programmes: 0844 504 3174 or www.3aaa.co.uk