You're hired! - Bite Digital help young people onto the career ladder
Date: 26.05.2011Online marketing agency Bite Digital (A
Manchester SEO Company) is giving Lord Alan Sugar a run for his money by helping local young people into work through its support for the Apprentice Academy, an organisation that works with forward-thinking employers across Manchester to recruit, train and develop the next generation of business and office apprentices.
The rapidly expanding firm, which relocated to new premises in Manchester’s prominent Northern Quarter last year, was pleased to offer a placement to Jordan Southern, who had just left school when he heard about the scheme. By working with Bite, Jordan gained valuable experience in the digital marketing arena, including working with clients, writing key proposals and learning how to manage web content.
The unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds reached 20.5% this year, the highest since records began. The Apprentice Academy, together with companies such as Bite Digital, is providing school and college leavers with the crucial skills and experience they need to find work, putting them through an intensive boot camp before finding them a placement within a local company.
Jason Cozens, CEO of Bite Digital, said that the scheme had “completely exceeded” his expectations.
“One of the things I was most impressed with was Jordan’s enthusiasm. Anybody can be trained up in a new skill set, but it is enthusiasm that really drives growing businesses such as ours,” he added.
As for Jordan, he had nothing but positive things to say about Bite Digital: “They have boosted my confidence a lot. I definitely made the right choice by doing an apprenticeship, and feel that I have a much better chance of finding a job now than if I had gone to college.”
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