James Price

29th November 2011

Welcometo AAT

Lisa Elsworth

AAT student member

Kent County Council

Who are AAT?

The Association of Accounting Technicians

• A professional membership body

• Qualification awarding body

• Providing qualifications for staff working at all levels of accounting and finance

• Members work in all sectors of the economy

• 120,000 members worldwide

• Vocational, skills based qualification delivered by computer based assessment

Current trends

What we’ve noticed this year

•Overall increase in students aged 15-18

•Increase in students with A levels or equivalent

•Decrease in students GCSE level qualifications

•Increase in students with a degree

•Increase in enquiries from possible career changers

Mark Nelson FMAAT, Accountant, Blake & Co

Employers and recruitment

• Employers are actively looking at apprenticeships

• Assessing the balance of their graduate intake vs school leaver intake

• Challenges to recruitment if only taken on graduates in the past

• Employers are looking to medium and long term future

• Short term – are new jobs going to be created?

Paul Donno FMAAT, Sole Proprietor Paul Donno & Co Ltd

AAT Apprenticeships

Key benefits

• Success rate for Accountancy Apprenticeships is 79.6%

• Innovative ways emerging around delivery• 3AAA’s Partnership

• Training provider lead

• Work placements

• Recognised across all sectors• Accountancy practice

• Public sector

• Commercial companies

Zeya Phillips MAAT, Owner, Phillips Accountancy & Books

The future – a few thoughts

• Longer ‘apprenticeship’ training periods

• Development of specialised technician roles, for example, Audit Technicians

• What will the future profile of graduates look like?

• Will current trends become long term changes in recruitment practices?

Ikram ul Haq FMAATAccountant, Mian & Co

AAT supporting you

• Regular careers mailing

• Who should we send it to?

• Attending more schools career events

• Working to link employers to schools

• Work with Financial Skills Partnership

• www.aat-jobs.org.uk

• What we need to know from you

• Do students like brochures?

• What resources do you use?

• Do you need to know more about careers in this field?

Myra Geater MAAT, Vodafone

from a qualified AAT member

Get in contact

James Price, Deputy Business Development Manager

e: james.price@aat.org.uk

t: 020 7397 3138

On-line

aat.org.uk/join

directions.org.uk/fsp/

apprenticeships.org.uk

Questions?