Apprenticeships
The classic success story
Apprenticeships are the proven way that businesses develop excellent skills and expertise in the workplace and employees build satisfying careers on the job. Whether you are in aviation, hospitality or retail, you can develop experts with a world-class ServiceIQ apprenticeship programme.
Your workplace could be eligible for a wage subsidy through the government's apprentice support programmes. Find out more here.
How we can help you
Employers
As your industry training partner, we:
- advise you on the right apprenticeship for your business and employee/s
- enrol your employee/s on the programme – design the training plan that works for your employee and your business
- mentor, monitor and assess your employee’s progress through to achievement
- keep you up-to-date on how they are tracking
- provide training and reference material and arrange offsite workshops, if required
- help you to support your employee throughout the apprenticeship.
Employees
As your employer’s training partner, we:
- assess your application to be an apprentice (remember, you’ll need to be working in a relevant part of the industry and have your employer’s support)
- plan your training with you and your employer
- mentor, monitor and assess your progress
- provide your training and reference material
- keep your employer up-to-date on your progress towards achievement.
Choose an apprenticeship
ServiceIQ’s apprenticeship programmes take about two to three years to complete, depending on your industry. Employees learn at their own pace and training mostly takes place in the workplace.
Retail
The complete package for up-and-coming retail stars
Customers choose where to shop based on service, product, price, location and so much more.
But it’s skilled, talented and committed people that pull all that together and drive success for your business. Staff with the right skills and knowledge make your store the top choice for your customers.
ServiceIQ helps you offer talented, up-and-coming employees an apprenticeship that delivers everything they need to impress your customers and help you run a slick operation. It’s also vital for growing a serious career in retail or management.
The programme is easily delivered to your staff, on-job, and at a pace that works for you.
Hospitality
The perfect recipe for up-and-coming chefs, caterers and front of house professionals
What makes this so special? This is an elite cookery programme where trainee chefs become qualified experts by training on-the-job – developing their culinary skills and knowledge, and continually creating, refining and perfecting their art to the highest standard. It’s the way many of the world’s best chefs make their mark, because you can’t beat the true learning experience of creating great food in a high pressure commercial kitchen for real, paying customers.
Choosing where to eat or enjoy a drink comes down to the food, the atmosphere and of course, great service. Front-of-house staff with the right skills and knowledge help to make your establishment the top choice for your customers.
ServiceIQ helps you do just that by offering your talented, up-coming trainees an apprenticeship with all of the skills they need to run the show and impress your customers. It’s also a vital ingredient to building a serious career in restaurant, bar and club management.
Catering is a fast changing, innovative industry with huge opportunities for business and the smart people in it. ServiceIQ offers your talented up-coming trainees an apprenticeship with all of the essential skills they need to confidently meet your customers’ expectations – whether you serve airline passengers, hospital patients, stadium audiences, care home residents, or concert goers and many, many more. It’s also a vital ingredient to building a serious career in catering.
Aviation
The right stuff for aeronautical engineers
Strands in Aeronautical Non Destructive Testing, Aircraft Mechanical, Aircraft Powerplant, Aircraft Structures, Armament, Avionic Electrical Repair, Avionic Instrument Repair, Avionic Maintenance, Avionic Radio Repair, and Rotorcraft
How to qualify for an apprenticeship?
First up, you need to have a job in the service industry.
Then you’ll need your employer to support your application.
You’ll also need a positive attitude, be committed to building a career in the service industry, be willing to learn new skills, and complete tasks and assessments towards your qualification.
Non-residents: providing you are employed full-time in a relevant workplace and you hold a two-year work visa, you can apply for an apprenticeship. Please be sure to visit www.immigration.govt.nz for further information.
Get the job first!
Two very useful websites are www.careers.govt.nz which has lots of information and advice on literally hundreds of careers in the service industry and more.
And if you know the kind of job and industry you want to work in, you could also check out www.seek.co.nz, www.trademe.co.nz/jobs or www.jobted.co.nz/apprenticeship-jobs which have thousands of jobs.
How to become a chef, caterer or front-of-house professional
You can carve out a career by landing a job in the right part of the industry – a kitchen if you want to be a chef or caterer, or in a restaurant if you want to be a food and beverage expert.
Then you need your employer to place you on an apprenticeship programme.
There are no specific secondary education requirements, but cooking credits are useful for aspiring chefs and caterers to show an employer that you have kitchen skills. Numeracy and literacy are also valuable since these roles involve weighing and measuring ingredients, ordering supplies and costing menus.
Many chefs and caterers start out as kitchen hands, learning the basics and how a kitchen works. Meet Ash who has successfully completed his cookery apprenticeship.
How to become an aircraft engineer
It starts at school. Successfully completing English, maths (NCEA Level 2), science and ideally physics gives you the basics you need to get started.
Traditionally, many successful aircraft engineers have started in the classroom and moved into a job with an apprenticeship. If you’re still at school, a great way to discover if this is the right career for you is to sign up for the ServiceIQ Gateway Aviation programme. You’ll get a good feel for the industry, plus credits towards your NCEA.
From there, you could join the RNZAF, or study at a tertiary institution to complete a pre-employment course, and then become an apprentice like Nicole.
