Modern Apprenticeships

After carefully following our ‘10 Tips For Creating a Great CV ’, the next step is to get prepared for interviews. In our line of work, we interview a wide range of candidates for a variety of roles within a vast number of organisations. Therefore, we see a lot of good and bad examples of

The Scottish Government has introduced the ‘Job Start Payment’ benefit for individuals aged 16-24 to help pay for items for work like clothes, tools and payments for travel. In this article, you will find information highlighted and written by the Scottish Government on how the ‘Job Start Payment’ works and who can apply. How It

In an effort to boost employment and help young people get into work during the Covid Pandemic, the government has announced a Kickstart scheme, which applies to businesses recruiting young staff, including apprentices. This scheme provides grants to businesses to cover wages for new recruits for 6 months. Sixth Sense Training is happy to provide

According to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), there has been a rise of one million IT job opportunities in the UK. In the past month, there has been an increase in job ads, in particular, for IT Professionals and Modern Apprentices. Recently, there has been an increase of over 15% in demand for web

Have you ever considered completing one of our paid short training courses? You may have seen the variety that we have on offer from ‘Getting start with Google Suite’ to ‘WordPress for Business’. But you might be wondering, what are you getting out of it? or how long is the course? So, in this, we

Due to unfortunate events of Covid-19, the majority of businesses have come to the decision to work from home for every team members’ safety and to follow Government guidelines. According to a source, over 40% of workers in the UK work from home on an occasional basis and this will potentially grow as workers have

If your business cannot cover staff costs due to COVID-19, you may be able to access government support to pay employee wages, to avoid redundancies. If your business chooses to access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, you will be able to classify employees as a furloughed worker. This would mean that employees are kept on

We know that some businesses have been better equipped than others to adapt to the changes forced onto most by the Covid-19 pandemic. With advice increasingly being that workers should work from home, if possible, we would like to help the businesses we work with navigate these changes. Here are several free software solutions we

Apprenticeships are booming in the UK and continue to be favoured by employers and organisations yearly. Perhaps, you’ve considered applying for an Apprenticeship but are unclear on what it would entail. So, today we have come up with some advantages of becoming an Apprentice: Earn While You Learn When doing an Apprenticeship, not only will

The consequences of over-sharing on social networking sites can sometimes land you in hot water, and in serious cases can even lead to you being in trouble with the police. So ask yourself, ‘Should I have tweeted that?’ or ‘should I be tweeting this?’ There are consequences, so here is a few examples of things