For Employers

Apprenticeships let you build the skills you need inside your own team. You define the role, set the standard, and get someone who learns your business from the inside. Because apprentices work in your organisation throughout the programme, there is no gap between hiring and contributing.

Vocate only works with employers who pay competitive salaries and offer a genuine learning environment. That filter matters — the candidates we place are joining for the right reasons, and they tend to stay. We are not a vacancy-filling service. We are here to build long-term capability in your business and real career pathways for the people we place.

We start by understanding what you actually need: the work, the team, the culture, and the kind of person who would fit. Once we have that picture, we run the search across job boards, social channels and our own candidate pool across England.

Every applicant goes through our screening process before you see them. We assess attitude and motivation as well as skills. You get a shortlist of people who fit your business, not just the qualification criteria.

Beyond standard recruitment, we run weekly assessment sessions with applicants. We test aptitude, English and maths, and relevant technical or creative skills depending on the programme. We also assess digital literacy, communication and professional behaviours.

This gives us a detailed picture of each candidate before we put them forward. The people we recommend have been evaluated against what your role actually requires, not just what the apprenticeship standard asks for.

Once you have chosen your candidate, we handle the setup. Funding registration, levy account configuration, onboarding paperwork, health and safety protocols, safeguarding requirements – all of it is managed by Vocate on your behalf.

By the time your apprentice starts, everything is in place. We work with your existing HR processes where needed. You focus on welcoming a new team member. We make sure the compliance side is done properly.

Every apprentice is assigned a dedicated Vocate tutor who checks in regularly throughout the programme – with the apprentice and with you. Your account manager is a single point of contact for anything that comes up on the employer side.

We do not wait for problems to escalate. If something is not working, we pick it up early. If your apprentice is progressing well, we push the programme further. You will not be left to manage the learning journey alone.

All Vocate training is delivered online. There is no block release and no travel to college. Sessions are scheduled around your working week and can flex during busy periods. The learning happens alongside the job, not instead of it.

Every Vocate tutor works in the industry they teach. Marketing tutors are active practitioners. ICT tutors work in technology. They bring real context to every session. We update our programmes as the industry changes, so the skills being built stay current and relevant to employers.

Vocate delivers apprenticeships across marketing, IT, sales and business admin. Within those areas we go deep: content creation, multi-channel marketing, marketing executive, ICT support, cyber security, digital support, sales and business administration.

We go further than the qualification standard. We teach principles, not just tools. A marketing apprentice learns how campaigns work, not just how to use one platform. An ICT apprentice understands networks, not just how to follow a troubleshooting script. When your business changes, your apprentice adapts with it.