This document summarizes a conference session discussing how leading employers like PwC, IBM, HSBC, and BT are benefitting from hiring apprentices. The session aimed to share how these four companies structure their apprenticeship schemes. Speakers from each company's apprenticeship programs introduced their roles and discussed how apprenticeships have grown significantly in recent years, with over 1.5 million starts since 2010 and nearly 870,000 people in apprenticeships in 2012-2013 alone.