An apprenticeship will support your business’ growth by acquiring or upskilling new talent that will be trained according to your needs, help you save money and achieve new milestones.
With 20 years of experience, we have placed and trained over 1000 apprentices with employers of every size, in every sector across the UK, that become invaluable members of the team.
A Creative Alliance apprentice can be part of your next success story.
Apprentices value your leadership and support on their development.
This leads to increase in loyalty, reducing any future recruitment and onboarding costs for your business when replacing employees.
The apprenticeship is based on the skills and competencies you require.
Helping you develop a workforce that is tailored to the company’s needs, contributing to increased productivity and efficiency.
Apprenticeships bring in new talent with fresh ideas and viewpoints.
Gain a competitive edge and evolve your business with the innovation an apprentice can bring into your companies practices and culture.
Hiring apprentices is an investment in your team
Using Government incentives and funding, recruiting an apprentice can save you money, while securing and cultivating future talent!
Our proven way of work provides your apprentice with the best learning and industry knowledge to become an outstanding member of the team.
Working with Creative Alliance you get:
Our Recruitment team will support you at every stage of your apprentice on-boarding, covering job advertising, prospect screening and interview arrangements. All for FREE!
Your apprentice will be trained by industry experts who deliver seminars based around key skills for their role. A dedicated Development Coach will also ensure their growth in your company.
Our apprenticeship training has enabled other businesses to upskill their current workforce into new roles, developing their skills and capacity to undertake new tasks.
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We specialise in the creative, digital and marketing sector and are committed to providing the best training that produces genuine results to the companies that trust us with the development of their creative talent.
With 20 years of experience as a non-for-profit training provider, we have connected over 1000 apprentices with places of employment.
Creative Alliance provides apprentices with updated skills and supportive knowledge beyond the required curriculum, to nurture holistic professionals that excel in their roles:
We partnered with Creative Alliance in 2022 and have been super impressed so far! From initial brief through to our recruitment event and eventually onboarding our learners – the process and support has been brilliant. Creative Alliance have genuine care for their learners and offer wonderful support to their employer partners!
Working with Creative Alliance has been a game changer for how we take on apprentices at Global. The team have been a real partner for us to explore the right fit programmes, to make sure our learners are reaching their full potential. From onboarding, to our apprentices passing their EPA – and everything in between has felt seamless!
We’ve worked with Creative Alliance since BBJ&K was founded 7 years ago, as we believe in growing talent and shaping futures within our organisation. Creative Alliance offer great apprentices and manage them throughout the entire process to ensure they reach their potential. We’ve just taken on 3 new apprentices and have, in some instances, developed previous apprentices through to director level; so we really believe in the apprenticeship program.
…they gave a first class recruitment service. Everything was presented to us in a timely manner and we were given a great account of each individual and why they thought they would fit with us. The whole recruitment process was quick & easy.
The games industry is an incredibly hard industry to get into. Part of the reason for us taking on apprentices was to give young people the break they needed.
We are now on our 4th apprentice and it’s having a great impact. Not only is it bringing youth into the company, it’s brought a fresh perspective.
A lot of people coming into the marketplace we’re not as skilled as I would like them to have been. I realised that with an apprenticeship would be ideal as they could get training on the job. This would allow them to be taught the ARK way of learning
Brilliant at every step of the way. We’ve been kept up to date with applications, screenings and been provided with a list of ready to interview candidates that would have taken us an age to compile. We have also been impressed how CA have contacted us after each interview to see how the meetings went. Excellent service
Apprenticeships made simple – Creative Alliance managed everything from finding, placing and training our Marketing Apprentice, they are absolutely amazing and an invaluable part of our team. Thank you so much!
As of April 2023, for 16-18 year olds, the current National Minimum Wage rate for an apprentice is £5.28 per hour.
For apprentices aged 19 and over, its £5.28 per hour for the first year and then after completion of the first year they will then be entitled to National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage rate for their age.
As this is a minimum, we recommend setting the wage higher as in our experience it will encourage more talented candidates and will show applicants that you value them higher, which can increase productivity and quality their work.
Our recruitment team does all the heavy lifting. They will advertise the role, contact candidates, make short lists and offer their expert advice.
Firstly, we work with you to establish what you are looking for including skills, attitude, knowledge and personality, so we can find the right talent for your business.
Then when you are ready we will advertise the role on our website, governement’s website, other job sites including Indeed, on social media and at events. If you want, you are also able to use your network and channels to advertise the position. If not, you can leave this to us. We are constantly recruiting for roles and, speaking with fresh and exciting talent, we may already have the perfect candidate for you.
When we have a number of suitable candidates, we will send over a list with notes so you can decide who you want to interview. We can also work with you to help make that decision and also offer advice on the interviewing process.
Once you have chosen the right candidate, we will guide you though the forms and contracts to get the apprenticeship started.
Already found someone?
If you have already got an individual in mind, that’s great, we can help you bring that individual onto the apprenticeship. We will just need to speak with them to ensure they are eligible for funding.
Unlike other courses, an apprenticeship can be started at anytime. Therefore you aren’t limited to term times.
Even though you can recruit an apprentice anytime, there are more optimal times to recruit. For example, as most courses end in the summer, the time when there are the most candidates are the months leading up to and during the summer holidays. We recommend getting in contact as early as you can so you aren’t competing for a candidate!
Yes, Yes and Yes.
Anyone is able to start an apprenticeship and is a great option to upskill a team member in their role or skill them into a new role.
As the apprenticeship scheme is funded by the government, there are a few eligibility criteria’s so we will need to speak with the individual first. This eligibility criteria includes:
Crossover is important as the government will only fund new learning therefore the individual can’t have previously studied the same subject at an equivalent or higher level. Also, even if they haven’t studied the subject but have a high level of experience and understanding within that role it could be classed as crossover.
We deal with each situation on a case by case, so for more information please get in touch.
Levy Payer
This is only payable if you have a total wage bill of over £3 million per year. This would mean that:
For more information we have created a small two-page Levy Guide. Get in touch with our team for further support.
Non-levy Payer
If your total wage bill is bellow the £3 million mark, then you would be a non-levy employer, in which case:
We know how time-consuming and costly it can be to recruit the right staff to your business. Our Recruitment and Marketing team will support you by:
All free of charge saving you time and money.
Speak with our recruitment team to establish how we can best recruit for you.
Graduated Apprentice & Creative Alliance Board Member
Our 2021-24 Business Plan has an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan. There is still significant under-representation of people from some backgrounds, experiences or abilities in creative, digital & marketing roles.
We’re working with partners to increase the number of people in training & apprenticeships who:
