EMPLOYABILITY
Learn while you earn Why apprenticeships are a great way to help kick-start your career Looking for a route into a new career where you can balance working with learning? Then an apprenticeship might be the way forward. An apprenticeship is a paid job where the apprentice learns and gains valuable experience, working alongside experienced staff. At the same time they also complete classroombased learning with a college, university or training provider to gain a nationally-recognised qualification. Apprenticeships are not
limited to career starters, young people or practical work. Today’s apprenticeships span many ages and are linked to entry level, senior management and physical work to desk-based jobs. Over the past year Wales & West Housing’s Group maintenance company Cambria Maintenance Services took on 16 new apprentices across Wales. Depending on where they are based our Cambria apprentices can study for a Foundation Apprenticeship in Maintenance Operations
as well as Apprenticeships in Electrotechnical and Plumbing/ Heating at Coleg Cambria in North Wales, Cardiff and Vale College in South Wales, Pembrokeshire and Coleg Sir Gar in West Wales. For more information on trade-based apprenticeships with Cambria visit �ww.cambria-ltd. co.uk To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2022 we spoke to some of our new apprentices. Here’s what they had to say:
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Starting my apprenticeship was a big step as I’d just left school and this was my first ever job. Cambria has made the journey better than I expected.
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Rydah McQueen Heating & plumbing apprentice Cambria Maintenance Services
