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Cafe chain brews up praise for the CWR
The award-winning coffee house and internet cafe chain iCafe has also tapped into the Modern Apprenticeship programme.
Umer said: "Young people bring bright ideas to his business. They are a very important part of our strategy – they bring enthusiasm and we learn from them as they make up a big chunk of our clientele.”
The Certificate of Work Readiness is designed to create ‘job ready’ employees who are taking their first steps into the world of work.
You’ll offer them 10 weeks of work experience – with free support from a local training provider - and then assess their performance as part of an SQA qualification.
Here Umer gives a rundown of the benefits of employers getting involved: