British businesses need support in order to train young people says Quest Professional

Nov. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- London, November 17, 2011 – British businesses need support if they are going to provide apprenticeships to young people and help to kickstart the economy according to Quest Professional Business Training.

The government announced today that employers will be able to bid for a share of the new £250 million government fund to invest in training following concerning recent unemployment figures which showed that the jobless total for 16 to 24-year-olds hit a record high of 1.02 million in the last quarter.

Quest Professional works with multi-national corporations and small companies to provide bespoke business training for new recruits and through their own professional coaching courses.

Quest Professional Managing Director Sean Morgan, who started his career in the financial markets before joining Quest, believes that companies must undertake professional training for young new recruits if their hires are to provide long term value – and for them to be eligible for government funding.

Sean Morgan said: “Quest Professional is delighted to see that the government is to provide a shot in the arm for British businesses following the extremely worrying statistics regarding youth unemployment.

“Quest Professional has years of experience delivering exactly the sort of training that young people need when they want to go into business and we welcome advising companies on how to pull together their own training programmes to assist them as they seek to meet the criteria for some of the public funding announced today.

“We offer a range of vocational training courses based around the needs of employers and we look forward to working with businesses to help them to map their own training requirements and to develop customised training programmes specific to their organisation.

“Given the pressure on all companies at present, young recruits have to be able to hit the ground running both to help companies to sustain and grow and also for their own career progression.”

Quest Professional runs a range of courses which offer a complete range of business and personal development skills that ensures candidates can undertake a variety of roles, which is so vitally important in the competitive jobs market, such as finance, strategic planning, marketing and presentation.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

The brands that underpin Quest have existed since 1912. Originally Queen’s Secretarial College, Quest Professional combines the former well-known businesses of Queen’s Secretarial College, Lucie Clayton, and St James’s and provides tailored training in skills for the modern business environment with an updated and progressive coaching and development approach.

Quest Professional offers a mixture of courses based on terms of up to 36 weeks, focused on the development of essential business skills. In the current environment of increased university fees, employer concern over the quality and relevance of some degrees in the business world, it is seen increasingly as a positive choice to university.

Quest Professional also has specific courses aimed at those who have graduated and are looking for business training following the completion of their degree. It is seen as the first step into committing to a career and taking life more seriously.

Quest Professional assists its graduates on completion of their course through its placement service to find employment in a world where there is fierce competition for jobs. Its reputation with employers in the business and professional job market greatly assist its graduates to gain employment following the completion of their course.

Quest Professional Managing Director Sean Morgan joined BE Limited in 2010, a group within the education sector whose businesses include Quest Professional and the Frances King School of English.

He provides strategic guidance for Quest and also works directly with Quest Professional apprentices on self awareness programmes, career development and explaining the workings of finance.

Quest Professional Director Jo Barnard started working for Sight & Sound Education Ltd in the late 1980s and quickly moved into contract business development for large public sector programmes.

She joined Lucie Clayton in 1997 and played an instrumental role in the merger with St James’s in 2003 and the subsequent sale and merger with Queen’s in 2006 which resulted in the formation of Quest. She was appointed Director of Quest in March 2010.  

Quest has a superb record of placing its apprentices in jobs at blue chip companies including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Morgan Stanley, Grant Thornton, Nomura, Goldman Sachs, the Royal Bank of Scotland LK Bennett, and Christian Dior.

For more information, please visit www.questprofessional.co.uk

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