Video interviews were held using HireVue, which will shortly be followed up with confirmatory telephone calls for successful applicants. With such a critical need for apprentices, BAE Systems could not let the lockdown hamper its recruitment and needed to adjust its practices to ensure candidates could still be assessed. It runs 25 different programmes across air, maritime, land and cyber divisions. Some 35% of its placements are at higher or degree level, 60% are at level 3 and 5% are at level 2. They could find themselves working on some of the organisation’s most exciting projects, many for the Ministry of Defence, including developing future combat air technologies for the Tempest programme in Warton, Lancashire the design and build of Dreadnought submarines in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria and Type 26 frigate ships in Glasgow.īAE Systems offers apprenticeships from level 2 right up to higher and degree-level programmes. When applications opened in February, more than 9,000 people applied for the 800 apprenticeships in roles including nuclear engineering, and cyber security. “Like many other employers we also have an ageing workforce so we need to replace talent that we know we need as a business… and because we want to bring in fresh people with new creativity and also to create greater diversity within the organisation.” “We’ve got a strong order book, work needs to be done and new employees need to be trained to be competent in technology that is changing… Young people are good at that and it connects with our strategic workforce planning. “I wrote to our HR directors in April at the point where we had to suspend our interviews – we were due to do 2,100 in April – and I had to get them to confirm they were going to go ahead with because we do need these roles,” Richard Hamer, education director at BAE Systems, tells Personnel Today. However, despite the impact that Covid-19 has had on its operations, BAE Systems is continuing with plans to bring on board 800 apprentices over the next 12 months, in recognition of how crucial they are to the delivery of its projects now and in the future. Graduate and apprentice hiring hit by coronavirus uncertainty Coronavirus could push youth unemployment over 1 millionĪpprentices can continue learning while furloughed

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