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According to Jalf, "it's probably one of the best interviews I've ever had" and at the end of April he found out he'd been taken on. Apprentices are traditionally thought of as being young, in the 1 6-to-1 9 age bracket, but Crockford says he was looking for someone who had had a bit of life experience, anywhere between the ages of 20 and 50 - "it doesn't really matter at the top end".\n It's an area, of course, that the UK government has to invest in if it wants to stay competitive with emerging economies such as China and India. [...] competition is also at the front of the minds of employers engaging with apprenticeship schemes. According to a LSC survey carried out in February, two-thirds of employers believe that their apprentices help them to be more competitive in their businesses.
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Get with the Program
The recession hit Satinder Jalf hard. He used to have his own shop, in Wolverhampton, where he was building computers, setting up networks, hel ping out customers with whatever information technology (IT) problems they might have. "I never turned anyone away," says Jalf But then the credit crunch hit, and he noticed that people just weren't coming in as much, scared off by the daily news of economic collapse. To add to his woes, the shop was burgled and that was that: in September last year he had to close d...
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