Apprentices programme – SENCE Chile
Promote and support the recruitment of young people as apprentices, to acquire training by performing the tasks in a work place and the access to competency-based training developed by the same company or by a Technical Training Organism – OTEC.
Young people up to 25 years who have completed their primary and secondary school or are pursuing any of them, for the duration of the apprenticeship contract.
The programme is executed by SENCE together with the OMIL.
It has two components:
1. Training, in which apprentices perform roles and tasks of their trade or occupation, within a company and under the guidance and supervision of a teacher guide.
2. Related education, which is a training activity related or connected to the occupation for which he was hired, seeking the incorporation of skills aimed at capacity building to improve their employability and their stay in the job.
Related education must have a minimum of 132 hours and should include skills that improve employability levels. The company may include within the course a module on digital literacy.
Companies that hire apprentices receive a monthly bonus equivalent to 50% of a minimum income for each apprentice hired, during the first 12 months of the contract. Additionally, SENCE finances with an extra bonus related teaching.
During the contract period the apprentice receives compensation not less than a minimum monthly income.
- The whole application procedure and access to program benefits takes place through a web platform.
- In-plant training involves benefits for young people in the internalization of knowledge in the field and provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to have more skilled workers.
Of all young people that ended in 2008, 40% was working in the same company with other recruitment and 20% found work in the occupation for which he was trained during the 6 months following the completion of the contract. Thus 60% of this group had an immediate or after their apprenticeship contract labor insertion.
In 2008 the programme achieved a coverage of 4,640 young people, covering nearly 90% of the target for that year.
Similarly, the target set of 12% of young graduates to "find a job within 6 months after the end of the programme" was achieved; in this case, the success rate of the indicator is of 13, 9% in relation to the total number of graduates.
In that same year, the sectors with the highest level of hiring apprentices were the real estate, trade, agriculture and hotels and restaurants.
