The NFDA and its members have launched a jobs website to attract young people
MG Motor UK has announced that the Cecil Kimber College has now been accredited by the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), following “significant investment”.
The Institute for the Motor Industry has called for a more pragmatic approach to apprenticeships after concluding that the Government’s Apprenticeship Levy remains “too complex, restrictive and inflexible”.
Three young people have been recruited by JCT600 having completed its four-week Get Into Automotive placement scheme, in partnership with the Prince’s Trust.
Furrows Group’s car sales operation is starting to look like a perfect sister act after the business employed the fantastic five Banks siblings in a variety of job roles.
Volvo Car UK will focus on school and college leavers in a bid to fill 60 apprenticeship programme spaces as part of an ongoing recruitment drive in 2018.
Jardine Motors Group HR director Clare Martin has warned that the issue of automotive skills shortage “will widen” with the increasing demands of technical expertise in dealership workshops.
Arnold Clark will attempt to use a newly-launched promotional vehicle to attract young automotive talent to fill the company's 300 vacancies for new apprentices.
The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has launched a Motor Finance Specialist apprenticeship.
The Kia apprenticeship programme has placed at least one apprentice in 95% of its dealer network, after 13 years of running.
Cap HPI has launched its own automotive apprenticeship scheme to support emerging automotive talent and mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week (March 5-9).
The IMI wants the automotive sector to embrace National Careers Week and highlight the career choices available to young people through apprenticeships.
The NFDA has joined with its members to launch an innovative new online platform aiming to highlight the wide range of career opportunities in the automotive retail sector.
TrustFord is hoping to attract 78 talented workers to share its “business success” with the opening of the application process for its largest ever intake of apprentices.
The IMI has called for the industry to stamp out bias towards men ahead of the Gender Pay Gap deadline.
Arnold Clark is opening its doors to 300 new apprentices, this summer, across a variety of roles.
The IMI has claimed that a combination of confusion surrounding the Apprenticeship Levy and the “increased administrative burden” it placed on employers could be to blame for a 26.5% decline in new apprentices.
Lookers became the only national motor retailer in the UK to be entered into Centrica’s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers listings as it was recognised for “making a difference to the lives of their apprentices”.
A campaign by the National Franchised Retailers to promote a greater understanding of automotive retail saw the Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable MP step into the showroom at Inchcape Volkswagen in Twickenham.
The UK motor retail industry ‘must take the skill shortage as our problem’