It’s National Apprenticeship Week, so as someone who has been through the apprenticeship process I thought I’d share some aspects of my experiences during that time. It all started when I decided that I didn’t want to find an art related job anymore, it was too difficult to earn a living out of it and I didn’t want my love for it to diminish; so I kept it as a hobby. That decision left me in a bit of a sticky situation in that I needed to find a subject I liked enough to form

If you follow our blog at all then you may remember that we posted an entry last year about an event which we spoke at about apprenticeships, social media and digital marketing. If you do not follow our blog, I will bring you up to speed now. Building Tectonics is a member of the Federation of Small Businesses (or FSB for short). Last November, the FSB hosted an event at which two of our employees spoke at. The event was about apprenticeships, social media and digital marketi

We have an event coming up, which is all about what it’s like having an apprentice in a small business, and so I thought I’d write about the other side of that – what it’s like as an apprentice going into a small business. My name’s Jade, and I’m currently doing an apprenticeship studying to become a qualified IT technician whilst working at Building Tectonics. Previous to working at Building Tectonics, I completed a course at Bletchley college, acquiring a BTEC National Dipl