Apprenticeships at 29 - Too old?
Posting for a friend not on Reddit.
They're currently attempting to get into accounting or book keeping and the rejections are really getting to him and is really affecting his mental health.
He's been applying for 2 years, and he always gets to the interview stage but the feedback he's getting is that the other candidate has some more relevant experience.
This seems ridiculous to me as I always thought an apprenticeship is meant to be a training opportunity and now they're asking for experience? I really can't help but feel that this might be due to his age as he'll have to be paid more compared to someone 18-21.
He's been applying to small local firms and sometimes councils. He emails for feedback and it's the same thing each time - too much competition and the other candidate had more relevant experience.
For me personally, this is absurd. I didn't have to have any relevant experience 7 years ago to get onto a scheme but now they're asking for minimum 3 months with a graph salary to boot.
Does anyone have any advice I can give? Are there any other fields he could go into? He initially wanted to go into IT but thought there that would be more competitive than booking keeping. Or even another Industry he should try? He literally just wants to get out of games testing that was only meant to be temporary
Thanks