Employer support programmes
Apprenticeships: delivering work-based training and qualifications to employees
Apprenticeships help employers provide work-based training and qualifications to employees aged 16 years old and over.
Advertise apprenticeship opportunities on JobApplyNI
Promote and advertise your apprenticeship opportunities through JobApplyNI.
SME Productivity Booster
Initiative to help businesses in Northern Ireland increase productivity through skills development leading to better working practices and increased competitiveness.
JobStart
Employer incentive scheme to help people aged 50-64 years old at risk of long-term unemployment enter the workplace.
Foundation degrees: providing higher education qualifications to improve employees' skills
Helping Northern Ireland employers provide higher education qualifications to improve their employees' skills.
Skills for Life and Work: Providing work experience for young people
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).
Work Experience Programme
The Work Experience Programme gives employers the opportunity to offer unemployed people meaningful work experience.
Essential Skills: developing literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
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.
Assured Skills: delivering skilled employees through pre-employment training programmes
The Assured Skills programme offers you the chance to recruit high quality individuals who are 'job ready'.
How to access a traineeship for employers
How employers can get started with a traineeship.
Further education training opportunities for your business
How further education (FE) and higher education (HE) courses can develop your employees' professional skills and bring measurable benefits to your business.