Comms-care supports apprentice scheme

Seven is the lucky number for support services specialist as it welcomes its first recruits to the business

Support services specialist Comms-care has joined the apprentice revolution and taken on its first batch of new recruits.

The firm has partnered with IT apprenticeship provider Pearson in Practice and has enlisted seven young trainees – Courtney Waller, Travis Stewart, Sam Marshall, Terae Eusebe, Tony Morris, Jack Wigley and Vidur Pabari (pictured L-R).

Comms-care’s apprentices will undertake a mix of on-the-job and off-the-job training including shadowing engineers in the field, providing them with practical and theoretical skills for the world of work.

Mark Forster, operations director at Comms-care, said: “IT skills shortages are a constant hot topic in the press and among the reseller community. We are finding that there is an ever-increasing dependency on us to provide our channel partners with more and more technical resource whether that is remote diagnosis or physical, on-site engineering resource.

“The partnership we have formed with Pearson in Practice, along with our other recruitment channels, ensures that as we look to adopt new services we can continue to be a trusted, highly respected support partner to the channel.”

Ben Davies, managing director of Comms-care, added: “The apprentice scheme is a great way for Comms-care to bring young, bright, enthusiastic individuals into the IT industry.

“Ensuring our partners receive the highest level of support is our most important objective, so training these new engineers under our own roof allows us to instil the core values that our partners have come to expect from us.

“It also provides the apprentices with an excellent opportunity to start a prosperous career in IT at a time when many other industry sectors struggle to survive," he said.