Our mission
Making apprenticeships easier to find, understand and compare.
Apprentice Insider is an independent guide for school and college students across the UK. We help you find apprenticeship employers, understand what they offer and make a decision you feel good about.
Working out what to do after school is a big decision, and apprenticeships should be an easy option to look into. You should be able to find employers you'd never have thought of, see exactly what they offer, and know what to do next.
In reality, it usually means trawling through dozens of employer websites, decoding qualifications nobody explains and piecing together advice from all over the place. We want to make that much simpler.
Our vision
To be the first place you go when you're looking into apprenticeships: employer research, industries and honest advice, all in one place.
We want you to look beyond the big names you already know, explore industries you might not have considered and see how far an apprenticeship can take you, from Level 2 all the way to a degree.
Most of all, we want you to make your choice with all the facts in front of you.
What we do
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Find employers
Research employers across loads of industries and find out what the work is actually like.
Employer Search -
Understand your options
Get apprenticeship levels, pathways and jargon explained in plain English.
Levels explained -
Get practical help
Guides on everything from pay to CVs and interviews, so you can give yourself the best chance.
Guides -
Discover something new
Spotlighted employers and guides that are easy to miss but worth your time.
Spotlighted
How we work
Honest, useful and properly checked.
Everything we say about an employer comes from a reliable source, and we show you the source and when we last checked it, so you can see for yourself. We keep facts separate from our own advice, and we'll tell you when an employer doesn't publish something.
We're an independent guide, not a recruitment agency. We're here to help you understand your options and find the official information, not to make the decision for you.
What's next
We've started with well-known employers across lots of industries, focusing on England while covering useful information for the whole UK.
We're adding more employers and guides all the time, so you can discover options you didn't even know existed.
Apprentice Insider: find employers, understand apprenticeships and work out what's next.