Cost-effective route to create future managersMike Turner, chief executive of BAE Systems, Europe's biggest defence company, and a member of the Apprenticeships task force, is a prime example of how starting at the bottom of the corporate ladder can lead to a top job."I began my working life as an apprentice," said Mr Turner, who argues that apprenticeships remain one of the most cost-effective ways of filling skill shortages as well as developing managers of the future.According to the taskforce's report, published today, BAE expects to save up to £1m a year by training apprentices rather than hiring and retraining outside workers "as apprenticeships cost 25 per cent less than training non-apprentices".It is "much more attractive to recruit young people as apprentices", as recruitment costs are lower, staff retention rates higher and apprentices "quickly identified with companies' values", according to the taskforce. BT, the telecommunications group, for example, had "calculated a net financial benefit of over £1,300 per apprentice per annum when compared to non-apprentice recruitment".Companies, even in industries such as construction and engineering, where training costs were high, found that youngsters in the later years of their apprenticeships were making "a high productive contribution relative to their wage costs", said the task force.Honda had reported that it took two years to retrain someone trained by another car manufacturer. Apprentices by contrast were "quickly immersed in their [Honda] company values and practices".Học nghề cũng đã là một "hiệu quả chi phí cách bổ sung thêm một lực lượng lao động lão hóa và đảm bảo hiệu quả chuyển giao kiến thức", Xerox, nhóm thiết bị văn phòng, nói với taskforce.
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