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Growth through strategic sourcing
Understand the importance of strategic sourcing, how to outsource, and choose and work with reliable suppliers to ensure the success of your business
Assessing current performance
How to measure your business performance, set the right targets and assess whether you should grow your business
Planning business growth
Guidance to help you prepare and plan for business growth, avoid common pitfalls, manage change and projects successfully, meet relevant standards and follow organisational best practice
Growth through product and service development
How to grow your business by developing new products or services
Growth through technology
Understand the key role technology can play in the development of your business
Tourism
Guidance on starting and growing a tourism business, legal requirements and getting a tourism business certified, quality grading, niche tourism opportunities, selling online and using resources efficiently
Your UK visa sponsorship licence rating
Various ratings for a UK visa sponsorship licence and how to upgrade if your licence is downgraded
Certificates of UK visa sponsorship
You must assign a certificate of sponsorship to each foreign worker you employ
Immigration skills charge and UK visa sponsorship
You might have to pay an additional charge when you assign a certificate of sponsorship to someone applying for a Skilled Worker or Intra-company Transfer visa
Job suitability for UK visa sponsorship
You can sponsor a worker if the job they’re going to do has a suitable rate of pay and skill level, or meets the other criteria needed for their visa
Employer responsibilities for UK visa sponsorship
Employers have a number of responsibilities that they must meet when employing someone on a UK visa sponsorship
UK visa sponsorship for employers
You’ll usually need a sponsor licence to employ someone to work for you from outside the UK
UK visa sponsorship for employers - eligibility
Eligibility criteria for employers applying for UK visa sponsorship licence
Types of UK visa sponsorship licence
Types of licences for workers under the UK visa sponsorship including a worker licence and temporary worker licence
UK visa sponsorship management roles
You need to appoint people within your business to manage the sponsorship process when you apply for a UK visa sponsorship licence
Apply for your UK visa sponsorship licence
How employers can apply for their UK visa sponsorship licence
Discrimination and equality in tourism businesses
Disability and discrimination laws for accommodation providers and what they mean for your business.
Check a job applicant's entitlement to work in the UK
How employers must take steps to ensure that a worker is allowed to work for you
Keeping records of workers' documents
Records employers must make and keep to prove their workers are eligible to work in the UK
Penalties for employing illegal workers
Visits by immigration officers and the penalties you could face if you are found to have employed an illegal worker