Certification as a Training Company
Great Start!
The Great Start! Certification is the recognition for outstanding Swiss training companies. It recognizes a good training culture and helps organizations to be perceived as an attractive training company by young talent.
What is the Great Start! certification?
Great Start! surveys all apprentices – creating the most credible assessment for other young job seekers. The Great Start! certification provides valuable and credible guidance for interested applicants. Finally, the organizations also receive clear feedback on their training culture, their strengths and their development potential.
«Being certified as a «Great Start!» company encourages us in what we do and shows us that we have done some things right in recent years. Thanks to our efforts around vocational training and through certification, we are generating great interest as a potential training company among young people from the region.»
«Repower benefits in many ways from the Great Start! analysis. For example, the results were fundamental in developing a clear and efficient strategy aimed at retaining our learners in the company after their training.»
What is the certification process?
01
Survey
The first step involves interviewing your apprentices. The questionnaire consists of statements about the training culture experienced. This includes professional advancement and personal perception, appreciation, respectful and fair treatment or lived team spirit. The methodology is based on the established Great Place To Work® FOR ALL model.
02
Training Concept
The second step involves the assessment of the organization’s training concept. In a questionnaire developed for this purpose, HR managers can document concrete measures, processes and tools that describe their training concept.
03
Certification
If 70% of your apprentices are satisfied with you as a teaching company, you will receive certification from us as a Great Start! training company. Afterwards it’s time to celebrate internally and communicate externally!
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Advantages of certification as a training company
External effect
- Increased visibility among potential apprentices & decision makers
- A sign of the high level of competence of vocational trainers and high quality standards in the field of training.
- Visible communication to the outside, what is lived internally
- Clear positioning as one of the best training companies in Switzerland
Internal effect
- Higher motivation and more commitment of apprentices and trainers
- Improving and increasing the relevance of the organization’s training concept
- Support in the development and implementation of a clear and efficient training strategy
- Internal visibility & recognition for the teaching and training activities.