Feed your vacancies from your TalentPortal to your NAS account and become 4 times quicker!
Before you begin sending your vacancy to NAS, please ensure that the employer has made the link between themselves and the training provider (you). They can do this by :
- logging into their Manage Apprenticeships account
- select ‘your training providers’ near the bottom of the home page
- either select ‘set permissions’ next to the name of he training provider, or if they do not appear in the list select ‘Add new training provider’,
For further information on this please contact your CSM.
Secondly, you will need to check that your vacancy meets NAS requirements before sending, otherwise you will receive an error message.
Currently no formatting (apart from single line breaks and bullet points) are accepted by NAS, and there are new character limits such as
- Employer description – 500
- Other information – 300
- Training Provided – 1000
Lets send the vacancy to the find an apprenticeship service:
- Scroll to the bottom of your vacancy details page and click ‘send to find an apprenticeship service’
- You will then be taken to a page where you will be asked to enter qualifications, these must be in an alpha numerical format for GCSE’s, if there are no formal qualifications required; please add a note of this in the qualifications required box on the TalentPortal, pop an English or maths GCSE as the lowest grade and set the weighting as ‘desired’, then press save and continue.
- You will then need to enter employer details. Search for the employer, and if they appear in the search select them, however if they do not appear they may have not provided the link to the training provider yet, or they could be registered under a different name (you can check this on companies house)
- Select ‘employer name option’, if you select anything other than ‘registered name’ please enter the alternative name in the new box that will appear
- Pop in a short employer description, if you have entered this on the vacancy details page then this will be pre-populated – press save and continue
- Now for the apprenticeship information, again some of this will be pre populated but please ensure everything is complete. You will need to make sure the correct standard is selected, add the duration, duration unit, wage type, working week description and wage additional information. Press save and continue.
- You will not be able to enter any additional information, but you will need to select at least one ‘skill’ from the drop down list pop in ‘application information’, select if the employer is disability confident, save and continue.
- This is the final page! You can now press ‘send to find an apprenticeship service’, you will either receive a ‘success’ message with the NAS reference, however if unsuccessful an error will appear. This error will tell you what needs changing to be able to send the vacancy through, if you have any issues with this please contact the CSM.
Another change is that one you post the vacancy, the employer now has to approve this on their apprenticeship account, so please make sure the employer is aware of this.
This feed means that candidates who apply on recruit an apprentice are sent to be managed on your TalentPortal account. Which also saves you bags of time! Because you can manage all of your applications all on one place.
Learn how to manage applications here!
And we also give you a fantastic report to be able to track the number of applications from NAS, as well as the number of successful candidates from there too. So from start to finish- it’s easy and super quick.
Learn more about this report here!
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