Richard Nutt is apprenticeships development manager and Helen Radcliffe works in business development.
Jenny Taylor is IBM UK's graduate, apprenticeship and student manager.
"Our students do work-based assignments, so they have the opportunity to include leading-edge technology in their university degree," says Jenny Taylor, graduate, apprenticeship and student manager at IBM. "It benefits us because we're developing really high-quality technical professionals.
There are advantages to taking on an apprenticeship, says Samantha Parry, talent manager for AccorHotels: "First, you are able to earn while you learn and gain a qualification in what you do.
Paul Hillberg, the general manager of Apprenticeships Queensland, told news.com.au that the shortage of trainees in Queensland was real, but the statistics weren't as alarming as they first appeared because they included other types of trades such as hairdressing and baking.
Too much, too early some would say when the reality is that the Rangers manager served an apprenticeship under one Walter Smith - who seemed to know a wee bit about the business - while the Celtic man was indeed thrown in at the deep end.
The Warriors' ascent has come almost as quickly as Myers' split-second apprenticeship as an assistant general manager, which was supposed to last a couple of years but in fact was completed in 12 months.
He did his apprenticeship, was a physio, became a manager and hasn't looked back.
Management consulting is a challenging environment in which to cultivate apprenticeship, because staff regularly jump from project to project and manager to manager.
Munich airport, for example, offers young people apprenticeship opportunities in real estate management, even though it could conceivably recruit qualified real estate managers from outside the region.
Apprenticeship as a basis for training managers will be used less and less since movement up through the line will become increasingly unlikely.
