Business Apprenticeships

Accounting

Business Administration

IT User

Guildford Business School is ideally placed to offer you a route into the business world. Courses are designed to equip apprentices with the skills and knowledge needed to work in an increasingly competitive, unpredictable economic market and cover a broad range of industry sectors.

Courses provide the opportunity to develop business skills, gain a wider understanding of the business environment, enjoy an environment that is activity-based and experience current business practice, whilst acquiring transferable skills designed to optimise productivity.

Accounting

Accounting involves recording and accounting for cash and credit transactions and recording payroll transactions. Apprentices could be working in a variety of roles and will need to be able to work as part of a team and have good communication skills.

Course content:

Financial records and accounts
Recording cost information
Preparing reports and returns
Using IT
Employment rights and responsibilities

Find out more about the Accounting Apprenticeship| and Advanced Accounting Apprenticeship|

Business Administration

The Business Administration Apprenticeship accounts for 12% of all Apprenticeships undertaken in England. It is such a versatile programme that it is suitable for most types of organisations, with an emphasis on the more practical side of administration.

This course provides a good grounding for a first time job in an administrative capacity and can be undertaken in a range of work environments. Apprentices will be producing reports and correspondence, working with staff within an organisation and its customers and clients.

Course content:

Wordprocessing
Databases and spreadsheets
Managing your workload
Working with others
Employment rights and responsibilities

Find out more about the Business Administration Apprenticeship|

IT User

This sector is important for the growth of the UK economy in the 21st Century because it helps build and maintain the technologies that keep UK businesses running. Whether working for a large corporation or a small local business, apprentices will deal with customers and will need to enjoy working with other people.

This Apprenticeship is suitable for someone who uses IT skills in their day-to-day work and could lead to work as an IT consultant, project manager, software support professional or hardware engineer.

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