Ollie Clayton has been named Apprentice of the Yr within the Hendy Group awards for his excellent work as the corporate’s first gross sales apprentice.

Clayton joined Hendy Group in Portsmouth 18 months in the past after studying extra in regards to the firm and its apprentice providing at an area careers truthful.

He was described by colleagues as clearly demonstrating dedication to their chosen profession path.

Hendy Group director of individuals & organisational growth Sarah Martyn stated: “Ollie reveals us that apprenticeships programmes are key to the long run expertise pipeline, and we now have little doubt he’ll now go from energy to energy throughout the gross sales division.”

This accolade coincides with Nationwide Apprenticeship Week and Martyn stated apprentices are integral to the long run success of the corporate.

She stated: “Investing in our future expertise is essential to long-term enterprise sustainability and progress. 

“We search for apprentices who actually desire a profession and we decide to offering that.”

In the previous couple of years, Hendy has launched apprentices in a spread of roles, corresponding to advertising and marketing, enterprise administration, and gross sales, along with the extra conventional technician apprentices.

Hendy at present has 65 apprentices working throughout the enterprise with 19 resulting from graduate this 12 months.

A key element within the coaching for apprentices is help from managers who obtain

tailor-made coaching in order that they will help apprentices from day one and annually chief government Paul Hendy invitations new and graduating apprentices for a big day off website to have a good time their contribution and achievement.

Martyn added: “I’m immensely happy with the contribution our apprentices make to Group Hendy and I’m excited to proceed to develop our apprenticeship providing and help them to have a profitable profession with us.”