Employer support programmes

Apprenticeships help employers provide work-based training and qualifications to employees aged 16 years old and over.

Promote and advertise your apprenticeship opportunities through JobApplyNI.

Initiative to help businesses in Northern Ireland increase productivity through skills development leading to better working practices and increased competitiveness.

Employer incentive scheme to help people aged 50-64 years old at risk of long-term unemployment enter the workplace.

Helping Northern Ireland employers provide higher education qualifications to improve their employees' skills.

Helping employers in Northern Ireland provide work experience for school leavers aged 16-17 years old (and under 22 and 24 years old for those with extended eligibility).

The Work Experience Programme gives employers the opportunity to offer unemployed people meaningful work experience.

Essential Skills is a training programme that assists employees aged 16 and over in the development of literacy, numeracy and ICT skills up to level 2.

The Assured Skills programme offers you the chance to recruit high quality individuals who are 'job ready'.

How employers can get started with a traineeship.

How further education (FE) and higher education (HE) courses can develop your employees' professional skills and bring measurable benefits to your business.