A Kwik Fit apprenticeship is about more than learning a trade. For as well as arming learners with the technical know-how needed to get your motor back on the road, the car servicing chain's two-year apprenticeship scheme also seeks to develop them as individuals.
"You would expect that I have a very strong technical training resource but actually I have just as much resource for the softer skills," says Paul Binks, Kwik Fit's head of learning and development. "I have 14 technical trainers and 13 soft skills trainers and they work equally with the apprentices. It's vital that we develop apprentices' self-confidence and their ability to learn for themselves. We want to provide them with some level of social mobility, so they can move onwards and upwards and achieve great things."
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