Career Development: A-One looking for new apprentices after a successful six months

A-One Insurance’s inhouse apprenticeship scheme A-One Academy has been lauded as a success six months after launch.

Sarah Eades, group operations director of A-One Insurance Group, said: “Since its launch just over six months ago the A-One Academy is proud to announce its inhouse apprenticeship scheme is a success story.

“The A-One Academy was set up to encourage school and college leavers who have the necessary skills such as good communications skills, a willingness to learn, have a good personality, are self-motivated and who may not have considered the insurance industry as an opportunity to develop their career.”

A-One provides inhouse training through the scheme with an external course provider visiting once a month to assess the apprentices’ work. Eades said that in the six months since the training started, the five apprentices on the scheme have been given promotions and additional responsibilities “far beyond what A-One Insurance Group had originally planned”.

She added: “The academy program follows NVQ standards that leads candidates towards a recognised qualification in insurance. So far, the apprentices have taken on all areas of the business from support functions to sales and have picked up many skills required in the industry.

“We are so delighted with the results we now plan to recruit more apprentices in the year ahead from the Hampshire and Dorset regions.”