At First4Skills, we’re using our skills and expertise to help thousands of UK businesses raise the bar when it comes to learning and development. But don’t just take our word for it. In this section you’ll find a whole host of organisations – from large blue chip multinationals to small local enterprises – who can lay testament to the benefits of our approach. We’ve been successful at helping them, and we can be successful at helping you too.
Client Testimonials
"An Apprenticeship offers a perfect foundation for future success, combining practical experience, qualifications and an insight into our business. During their learning programme, our apprentices develop many valuable skills that can be applied both in the retail sector and elsewhere."
Waitrose, Learning & Development
"We have recently entered into an agreement with First4Skills to be our exclusive training provider, choosing to work with them over a number of other providers. As The Restaurant Group is a nationwide chain of restaurants we felt it was important to embrace the opportunity to complete work-based qualifications with all our employees. In order to make this a reality we needed a provider that could instantly deliver across all our sites - up and down the country. With over 500 Training Assessors, we feel confident that First4Skills will meet our expectations and will prove to be number one in their field."
John Kelly, Group Trainer, The Restaurant Group
"With First4Skills we have an exclusive provider who can offer nationwide coverage and consistent delivery, giving all our employees up and down the country access to work-based qualifications. First4Skills gives us unrivalled account support along with access to up-to-date management reporting which is totally transparent so we always have visibility of learner progress."
Boyd Glover, Colleague Development Manager, Dixons Retail PLC Group
"What ePortfolio means for us is a more streamlined learning experience for our learners. The fact that learners are able to submit evidence electronically in a variety of formats including digital voice recordings and video means that visits with the Training Assessor are now more productive; learners ultimately spend less time away from their day-to-day job."
Craig Downing, Team Leader, HBOS
Learner Testimonials
"I was impressed with how easy it was to sign up for Get My First Job, and how easy it was to actually find apprenticeships in my area. I was even more impressed that not even 24 hours after I applied I got a call from First4Skills asking me about the apprenticeship I had applied for, and rang me back the same day for a phone interview, where you made me feel comfortable because you reassured me that I shouldn't be nervous. The Apprenticeship Coordinators at First4Skills kept me updated about the interview details.
When I first started with AXZNT everyone made me feel very welcome, they gave me all the help I needed even if it meant that they had repeat themselves to me. Throughout the last couple of weeks when I have being working at AXZNT everyone is still just as lovely!
So far I have had two visits from Dawn, my training assessor at First4Skills, she is lovely. When we where sorting out all the exams and assessments I would be doing I did feel a little overwhelmed but Dawn reassured me that It's not that bad as we will do it in small chunks and break it all down and go through it together, so I feel much better about doing that now.
Overall, First4Sills have being fantastic and I am very grateful that you where able to get me this apprenticeship."
Lucy Quirk, Business & Administration Level 2 Apprenticeship
"First4Skills got me an apprenticeship in October and I thought it would be nice to let you know how I am getting on. Firstly, I'd like to say Thank you for the opportunity, I’m really enjoying my job, it’s been a month and a half and I haven't hated it one bit! I really enjoy working at 1st Stop Group it was something I didn't expect to enjoy, but I am. The company have also decided that because I'm a really good employee and work really hard, they will take on three more apprentices and have decided to go through First4Skills again. So plenty more to come in this company! I have found that the company haven't just given me jobs that don't matter; I have important job roles, so if I do something wrong it does impact the company. However, I have very good people helping me with the job training, etc.
Anyway, I thought that a bit of positive feedback about First4Skills and especially the Apprenticeship Coordinator because you were very helpful to me and was constantly on the phone asking my interests, so it proved to me that the company does really care about young people. First4Skills found me this vacancy really quickly unlike all other websites and places I went to try and get a job, never mind an apprenticeship.
Thank you so much for all that you did for me! I probably would have ended up on Jeremy Kyle show if I didn't find out about First4Skills."
Dylan Jones, Business & Administration BTEC Level 2 at 1st Stop Group