Joseph Shields

A video created by The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS). Joseph Shields began his Apprenticeship training when he was 23. His employers,Watts Truck and Van Ltd, Bristol, were originally worried that his age and weak literacy and numeracy skills would be a barrier to his progress but he persuaded them to take him on and has since proved himself an extremely determined, hard working and motivated trainee. Joseph took a pay cut to be an apprentice and had to promise to improve his maths and English skills to the agreed standard, which he did.