Employer categories
Employer of the Year Award 2010 Categories
Are you an employer with a difference? Are you committed to training your workforce through Apprenticeships?
Are Apprenticeships adding value to your business? Have Apprenticeships helped increase your company’s productivity, or led to more innovative ways of working?
If you can clearly show a dynamic approach to training, together with evidence of commercial gain and positive plans for Apprenticeship training in the future, this award is for you.
Tell us your story and you could be Employer of the Year 2010.
Categories
There are five categories within this Award to recognise the different approaches to Apprenticeships taken by organisations of differing sizes, these are;
- Micro Employer of the Year (1 – 9 employees)
- Small Employer of the Year (10 – 49 employees)
- Medium Employer of the Year (50 – 249 employees)
- Large Employer of the Year (250 – 4,999 employees)
- Macro Employer of the Year (5,000+ employees)
Who should enter?
Employers in England, who, during 2009, have National Apprenticeship Service funded apprentices within their organisation.
Don’t forget if you have an outstanding apprentice who has exceeded your expectations to succeed on their Apprenticeship, they can apply too. Just visit the Apprentice of the Year Award pages; you never know, you could be a double winner.
What makes a winner?
The Employer Awards are designed to acknowledge and celebrate employers’ commitment to developing their workforce through Apprenticeships.
Judges are looking for employers that can showcase the benefits to be gained from a commitment to Apprenticeships. In particular, those that can demonstrate the following:
Commitment;
- To training their workforce through Apprenticeships
- To embedding a training culture in their company
- To the range/number of Apprenticeship frameworks supported
- To future training and Apprenticeship development
Business benefits;
- The training has enabled the business to improve, grow and perhaps even survive
- The benefits are measurable and quantifiable
Best practice and transferability;
- The entrant is an exemplar, and has the potential to act as a role model for other employers
Enter for an Employer of the Year Award and gain the recognition you and your apprentices deserve.
How does the competition process work?
The Apprenticeship Awards are a competitive process and applicants will firstly be nominated and judged for the status of Regional Employer of the Year, for the given size category.
Winners from the nine Regional Awards, plus the winner of the National Employer Service’s Workforce Development Awards, will then proceed through to the finalist stage where one winner will be awarded National Employer of the Year for each given size category.
Winners and Prizes
As a Regional winner you will enjoy;
- Regional Employer of the Year award status in the given company size category
- Recognition for your hard work through regional media activity
- A winners’ endorsement mark to your showcase your achievement
As a National winner you will enjoy;
- National Employer of the Year status in your company size category
- The business kudos associated with winning an important national award
- Publicity in national media including the possibility of appearances on radio and television
- Potential for further recognition as a national ‘role model’ for other employers
- Attendance at an Oscar-style celebratory awards ceremony at the Westminster Plaza in London on the evening of the 15th July 2010.
What happens after the Awards site has closed to entries?
Every application is read and assessed then entrants will then be notified about the decision concerning their application by the end of March 2010.
The first stage judging panels commence at the end of March through to mid April 2010. Those selected as a finalist will be invited to their regional ceremony, being held between the end of April and early June, when the Regional winner will be announced. Further details will be sent to applicants during April 2010.
The winners of each of these regional panels will then naturally proceed through to the national finalist judging stage where one winner will be awarded the National winner at an Oscar-style celebratory awards ceremony at the Westminster Plaza in London on the evening of the 15th July 2010. Notification about the decisions made at the national stage of the compeition will be sent out early June 2010.
Last Updated: 03/03/2010