New apprenticeship scheme set to launch for agents

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A new apprenticeship scheme for estate agents and letting agents is launching and is due to accept its first intake of students in October.

The Bloom Apprenticeship Academy is based in Birmingham and says it aims to deliver "the next generation of well-educated, commercially aware agents to help promote professionalism in the industry".
  
It says that working in close partnership with forward-thinking estate and letting agencies, it “hand picks tomorrow’s potential performers who seek vocational training as an alternative to university”.

The apprentices attend an intensive six-month training course, which will be split between classroom-based training at the Academy and as an employee of their supporting estate agency in the field.

Successful apprentices will sit for an NFoPP Technical Award in sales or lettings, a Level-3 NVQ assessment, a European Computer Driving Licence, and learn competence working with portals and agency software.

The academy is being sponsored by HomeLet, whose managing director John Boyle said: “Our partnership with the Bloom Apprenticeship Academy is a great way of helping to shape the future of our industry whilst supporting the next generation of letting agents.
 
“There are many young people who seek an intelligent route to employment that allows them to hit the ground running, and we’re proud to play our part in this.”

Bloom’s managing director, Gary Redmonds, said: “HomeLet’s sponsorship will help us to equip our state-of-the-art training centre, which replicates an actual estate or letting agency.”


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