Monitoring and Tooling Degree Apprentice Review

by Unilever

Best Apprenticeship Employer

Rating

7.9/10

1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

My Job Role: Monitoring and Tooling Degree Apprentice Daily Tasks: Capability work, Developing reports for out tools, Cloud Reporting, Scripting, Documentation Daily Interactions Internally: Within the Tooling Team, other engineering and cloud based teams - sometimes with none engineering based teams, however this is rare. Daily External Iterations: Occasionally Emails/Interactions with members of companies such as Microsoft and IBM. Responsibilities: Maintaining and Updating reports, working on capabilities for new software/tools Projects: Mainly capability work for upcoming tools to be used within engineering Everyday: Planning, writing up, and working on ongoing capability and maintaining systems and tools.

8/10

2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

Developing skills to do with my degree course, schemes such as ITIL and other External Training from QA. For training to do with personal development I have been building confidence in presenting my work and portraying to a group of managers.

7/10

3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

I enjoy my degree program greatly - with lots of work and development opportunities to work towards. This includes working towards a more cloud based future, this has allowed it to far exceed my expectations. This is due to many things such as the culture of the work space and individuals I work with

9/10

4. How valued do you feel by Unilever?

I feel rather well valued at Unilever, with a large amount of appreciation from my manager and team - allowing me to learn many skills on a daily basis. This has allowed me to be involved with many projects and being valued as a part of them.

7/10

5. How well organised/structured is your programme?

My study is very structured with new tasks to complete on a weekly basis that work towards an overall goal of an assessment every 6 weeks to 2 months. Along with this quarterly visits from Open University staff and fortnightly meetings from the Apprentice Employment Agency have allowed me a great amount of help, if required - which is rare.

8/10

6a. How much support do you receive from your training provider?

As discussed above, the large amount of support is there, with more focused online sessions from the Open University allowing support and help whenever needed. Emails can be sent to tutors regularly if explanation on work is needed with a rapid response happening often

8/10

6b. How much support do you receive from your employer?

Meetings with my manager and mentor happen regularly allowing me to better target my work so that it aligns with my course best as possible.

9/10

7. How well does your salary/package meet your costs?

Due to having to move away from home, the Salary overs about half of my living costs, and the rest is spent on Social Occasions and saving for desired items and holidays.

8/10

8. Are there many opportunities outside of work?

There are some networking events, however a lot of the events are organised by individuals within the workplace.

7/10

9. Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?

Yes

9b. Why?

It is a great place to work - and the people make it even better!

10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Unilever?

Be Yourself! It is the most important thing! If you lie about who you are and the skills you have it will backfire, I know as I have seen it happen to others. Other than that I would say do not worry too much about skill level - you will be trained in the relevant skills if you do not have them! They look for people with potential as an apprenticeship is a development opportunity, and they want to help you develop into a strong individual.