How to apply
Our recruitment team will support your apprenticeship journey from filling in your application to helping you secure a job and starting your apprenticeship.
If at any point you have any questions about your application, you can contact any member of our recruitment team or email recruitment@amrctraining.co.uk.
See more about our application process below.
Please note: applicants may not be invited for AMRC interview or shortlisted by an employer.
How our application process works
The first step to applying is giving us a bit more information about yourself. To do this and get your apprenticeship journey started, you must complete this form.
You will receive an email with a link, where you can begin the application process by completing an initial eligibility check.
Please note that this is an introductory step you must take before you can begin your formal application.
After completing the eligibility check, you will receive an email with your MAYTAS login details, allowing you to set up your account and begin your application.
To complete your application you will need your ID (birth certificate or passport), list of achieved qualifications or predicted grades statement (with relevant proof) and you will need to complete a personal statement showing examples of interests and activities relevant to engineering.
Please allow yourself at least 45 minutes to complete this stage.
The next step is to start your formal application through our portal, MAYTAS. Don’t forget to keep your username and password safe.
Once you have completed your application, we will contact you to let you know how you got on. If successful, you will progress to an online assessment.
You will need:
- A copy of your actual or predicted GCSE grades, specifically, english language and maths GCSEs.
- Proof of rights to work documentation (such as a passport or birth certificate)
- Please note a driving licence is NOT accepted as proof of ID
- You will complete our online colour sight test - some of our pathways require full-colour vision. If the test confirms you do not have full-colour vision, we may require you to visit an optician, and you may have to consider alternative pathways
Helpful tips
- The more information you can provide, the easier it is for us and the employers we work with to try and find you the right role
- Do your research, you can find more information about the apprenticeships we offer on our website.
We require everyone that applies to complete an online assessment. The tests we carry out are relevant to the engineering sector and focus on several key skill areas, these include:
Literacy – assess your strengths and weaknesses in an engineering context
Numeracy – measures your strengths and weaknesses in an engineering context
Spatial Relationships – looks at your ability to visualise two and three-dimensional shapes, which have been rotated, or mirror image
Mechanical Reasoning – looks at your ability to understand basic mechanical principles of motion, direction, and applied forces in an engineering context
Principles of Measurement – assess your ability to understand units and principles of measurement
Problem Solving – measures your ability to understand and solve problems in an engineering context
Understanding Electrical Principles - access your ability to understand electrical and electronic principles of voltage and current
In addition, candidates applying for higher or degree apprenticeships will be required to complete a further higher maths diagnostic test.
Once you have successfully completed your application form and online assessment, a member of our team will contact you regarding your next steps.
The interview will be with a member of the recruitment team and a member of the curriculum team. You will need to be prepared to answer questions about yourself, about your current understanding and knowledge of the engineering apprenticeships you are looking to start and any school or work projects relating to engineering that may support your application and finally a problem-solving question. As part of the interview, degree candidates are asked to prepare and deliver a 2 minute presentation.
If you are successful in completing steps one to four, you can progress to the finding an employer stage. You will need to attend employer interviews and be offered a job before you can start your apprenticeship at the AMRC Training Centre.
Don’t worry, we will help you. What makes us a good choice, is our recruitment team works directly with companies on your behalf. We already have jobs available for our applicants to apply to. You can browse some of our current vacancies here. Please check the page on a regular basis.
If you already have a job with a company that would like to support you in undertaking an apprenticeship, please state this on your application form and our recruitment team can help with the rest.
You can contact them at recruitment@amrctraining.co.uk.
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