Aon trials apprenticeship scheme

With support from the National Skills Academy for Financial Services, (NSAFS) the UK's largest insurance broker has run a pilot apprentice scheme within its general insurance division. The test scheme, which has been running at offices in Farnborough, Bristol, Leicester and Glasgow since October, was devised as a potential solution to recruiting staff with the right skills, such as servicing commercial and personal lines clients and working with insurers to get competitive premiums. The NSAFS helped Aon to set the scheme up and access public funding. As part of the apprenticeship, in...