Apprenticeship advice

CITB are a great company and helped me get on the scheme even with a degree and being over 24 years old! They aren't a carpentry company themselves, but they found me one in no time! http://www.citb.co.uk/

When I was looking for an Apprenticeship at the age of 17. I got on my push bike and cycled to local building sites in my home town and from that I met builders, got numbers and got leads for work experience and potential apprenticeships. Working for smaller building companies will give apprentices so much more exposure and experience compared to an apprentice who works for a massive company, because in huge companies apprentices just get used as cheap labour in my opinion and experience. Smaller, local building companies make the best most highly skilled newly qualified tradespeople. So like what I said at the start of this, go onto site on local building sites and literally speak to someone in charge and go from there. It’s all about having people skills and communication skills in this industry so go met some local builders and get some local numbers. Best of luck!!