The apprentice doctor will see you now š©ŗ
The apprentice doctor will see you now š©ŗ
Better late than never (sorry everyone!), this week Iāve got some fantastic research on students and graduates, as well as all the latest on Englandās brand new medical apprenticeships.
ā¬ļø TOP UPDATE
It's finally happening... Doctor apprentices will start their training in England next year
Last week, the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education approved a new apprenticeship standard: Medical Doctor (Level 7). The much-anticipated standard has been in the making for more than two years, having been developed by a consortium of NHS trusts, a GP partnership and private healthcare company, HCA, to create new routes into the medical profession across the public and private sectors.
The huge occupational standard is one of the institute's biggest, containing 70 knowledge points and no less than 104 skills. In the same manner as existing university medicine programmes, training will be delivered by medical schools over a 5 year period and completion will allow direct access onto a foundation programme to become a junior doctor.
The timing gives England's 34 medical schools just 12 months to prepare their curriculum if they want to onboard their first cohorts next year; however many are likely to have been planning ahead for some time. If they have, the first apprentices could start on their programmes as early as September 2023.
Speaking to FE News, the medical director of Health Education England, Prof. Liz Hughes, said that the new doctor apprenticeship 'will make a career in medicine accessible for talented people from every background while maintaining the exact same high standards of training set out by the General Medical Council'.
What it means for you: We are now one step closer to killing the outdated argument that 'degrees will always be necessary for certain careers'. Could this new standard help you convince the leaders in your organisation of the value of apprenticeships over graduate programmes?
š NEW RESEARCH
40% of recent graduates are planning to leave their employer by the end of the year
Last week, careers advice website, Prospects.ac.uk, released their 2022 early careers research. The company surveyed more than 5,000 of their users between January and February this year, including over 1,600 current students and 1,800+ graduates in employment or self-employment.
The main headline is the shocking statistic that 40% of last yearās graduates planned to leave their current employer before the end of the year. Managers of graduates and HR leaders will likely be unsurprised to learn that pay and progression were the two most common reasons cited for leaving, as the hyper-competitive job market continues to create challenges in the early careers space.
Other findings included new information on young peopleās mental health, with more than half of respondents reporting that taking care of their mental health was their biggest challenge in 2021, and that 63% of university students struggled to stay motivated during their job search.
The full report can be found here and also includes research on school-age students, apprentices and NEET individuals.
What it means for you: A significant proportion (45%) of working graduates said that they didnāt see their job as a career. If we want to retain our entry-level talent, what can we do to promote long-term career building within our organisations?
š THIS WEEKāS THINKING
āAny professional employer that is demanding five days a week in the office is likely to find its pool of candidates shrinking.ā - Jonathan Black, director of the careers service at the University of Oxford, in the FT
āAdd to this theĀ 450,000 employees that have quit paid employment since 2019, and 200,000 EU workers that have left the UK due to Brexit, and the outlook for the recruitment crisis remains bleak.ā - Jonathan Beech, managing director of Migrate UK, in HR Zone
āIt is important to stress that changemakers are not limited to those in senior positions. It is vital to engage with young people entering the workforce in order to empower them to make an impact from day one.ā - Olivier Lazar, vice-president for youth and social impact at the Project Management Institute, in FE News
š WORLD NEWS
Think that graduate salaries are rising too fast in the UK? Wait until you see what theyāre paying their grads down under! Yesterday, the Australian Financial Review reported that trading firm Jane Street are putting 350,000 Aussie dollars on the table for their entry-level software engineers, which is equivalent to around Ā£200k. Time for a career change anyone? - Read more (if you can bear it)
š„ HOT JOBS
If you decide against the career change but still want to work at Jane Street, theyāre looking for a junior campus recruiter here in London - Apply
Another junior recruiter role has popped up at law firm Dentons, with manager Rosie saying sheās not looking for any particular prior experience - Apply
If youāve got some experience, however, Bank of America want to hire a more senior recruiter at either AVP or VP level - Apply
And finally staffing firm Adecco will pay up to 34k for a one year fixed-term contract to coordinate their talent development programme - Apply
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