UK resident, "A" Levelled and out of work.....

Or have kids in that situation?
Get them to Germany for an apprenticeship.

£700/month after tax, Free language training.
Moving costs covered and 2 free trips home per year
And a good place to visit them too.

http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/germany-recruits-young-brits-to-fill-future-occupation-gaps/

http://www.international-business-academy.co.uk/

 

I can highly recommend it. Doing some time abroad is great for your CV and life experience. I did a semester in Germany on a student exchange programme once. Good times.

 

Wow, what an amazing offer!

Shame I don't know any A-level students.

 

Man, I hope there's stuff like this in ~25 years when I've got a 17 year old leech..

 

Bloody EU Emigrants, taking our jobless...

 

I imagine this will be taken up enthusiastically in Ireland, for those that aren't already in Australia.

 

Whilst all the Australians are moving to Ireland to apply for the jobs that don't exist, which is why the Irish are leaving in droves!

 

There is a joke about your "Black leather uniform and boots" in there somewhere

 

Sounds awesome, sign me up!

 

That's how I got discount.

 

Black leather coat and boots? I suppose that looks smashing with the red dress, eh?

 

Oooooooo thank you! Shall give this a look, as the last 12 months have been pretty depressing in a job hunt from my stand point.

 

lol

 

man wished something like this turned up before i had kids. :/

 

Bugger 2 months too old.

 

If I was finishing college this year, I'd look into this. Great opportunity for those who get the apprenticeships.

 

Some of us Leprechauns are in the England and many of us are still Home In the Emerald isle I'll have you know your right about the none existent jobs though matey

 

Siemens is a decent German company to work for with UK operations in full swing.

Apprenticeships are full fat 4 year, decent pay afterwards and the opportunity to work overseas.

They have their fingers in many pies, So it might be worth a look for any of you young 'uns looking to get a good start in employment

 

Mmm, the Germans are apparently having serious issues with getting enough engineers and skilled workers. Lots of them train there but then move to GB, CH, NL because the salaries in Germany aren't actually that amazing. They're great, but as an engineer you might earn say €25,000 p/a where-as in the UK you can be on an extra 10 over that.

Absolutely fantastic scheme though. I like the contrast between this as a German apprenticeship scheme and our UK shelf-stacking apprenticeships for £2.20 an hour where you spend the summer learning how to stack shelves for Iceland.

 

When the Germans do something, they do it properly.

When I studied in the Netherlands, you could hear students during their lunch break talk about movies, going to the pub, the latest gossip. When I studied in Germany, you could find out what students were studying just by listening to them, because that would be what they were talking about. It's a different culture.