How Apprentice Connect works

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   Step 1: Choose your apprenticeship

   Choose the type of apprenticeship you want to apply for. One application covers one apprenticeship.

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   Step 2: Choose your employers

   Choose up to 5 employers you'd be interested in working with, and the locations that suit you. You don't have to put them in order.

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   Step 3: Complete your application and assessment

   Tell us about yourself and complete your Apprentice Connect assessment.

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   Step 4: Review your choices

   Later in the process, we'll ask you to review your employer choices.

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   Step 5: Employer matching

   If you move to the next stage, we'll use your application and assessment to help match you with participating employers.

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   Step 6: Interviews and offers

   Employers may invite you for interview and can make apprenticeship offers. You have 48 hours to respond to an offer.

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   Step 1: Register and be approved

   Register your organisation; our team reviews and approves it before any candidate data is shared.

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   Step 2: Confirm participation

   Participation is free for this pilot. Your place is confirmed once a Super Admin approves your registration.

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   Step 3: Set up recruitment

   Declare apprenticeship types, locations, work patterns and vacancy numbers.

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   Step 4: Receive your shortlist

   When a round is released you receive up to five active shortlisted candidates per pool, where enough eligible candidates are available, plus a reserve pool.

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   Step 5: Interview

   Invite candidates to interview. Contact details are released to you at that point, and record the outcome afterwards.

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   Step 6: Offer and place

   Make formal offers, then track acceptance, commencement and six-month retention.

To keep the process fair, we don't publish the detail of how matching works. Matching is run and reviewed by our team — it is not automated decision-making by artificial intelligence.