It’s National Apprenticeship Week and the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship programme is open for applications.

We’ll be releasing the first three of our series of ‘Five Doors’ videos to give you an idea of the exciting opportunities and work-life balance that a career in the Civil Service can offer to school leavers across the country (although the programme has no upper age limit). There’ll be a video for each of our five schemes: Business, Finance, Commercial, Project Delivery and Digital and Technology.

We’ll be at a number of high-profile job shows this week, including the National Apprenticeship Show and the Bristol higher education exhibition on 14 and 15 March – feel free to drop by and learn more about the Fast Track and the chances to earn, learn and succeed that it offers you.

This week a number of our apprentices will be battling it out in the Great Apprentice Takeover –
an exciting competition which is promoting the Fast Track through a series of three challenges. Keep It Street has the apprentices designing groovy Fast Track hoodies, Keep It Local has them arranging high-profile local recruitment events and Keep It Social has them creating diverse and engaging social media content about our apprenticeship programme. We’ll be keeping you updated on the teams’ activity via our Facebook and Twitter pages.

We’re also launching the A-pprentice Pets Challenge – apprentices will be sending in pictures of their furry friends and we’ll be posting them on Facebook. We’ll be announcing the winner (the pet with the most likes) on Thursday.

And that’s not all we’ve got in store, so be sure to check in with us throughout the week!