Digital Apprentice Review

I am the digital apprentice, that means I focus most of my time on the website. I help my manager with optimisation of web pages. I also help with the administration side of things such as putting invoices through. I work with a whole range of people across different teams everyday. I spend a lot of my time shadowing different people to gain new skills and to see if I can help them in any way.

I have really developed my excel skills from working on spreadsheets most of the time. I have also learned the key aspects of UX and digital journey management. I am also working towards my level 3 business administration qualification.

I really like the apprenticeship programme that prudential provide. Everyone has been really friendly and supportive right from the start.

I feel very valued by everyone within prudential. I was part of the team right from the beginning.

It is very organised. We have apprentice meetings whenever we feel like we need them. The apprenticeship scheme manager is always there if we need any help or have any questions. I have regular 1-2-1's with my line manager to make sure that I am on track and doing what I'm supposed to be doing. The induction was very well organised, we had time to get to know the other apprentices before we were put into our teams. I thought this was a really good thing as it wasn't too overwhelming, considering most of us had come straight from school.

We receive as much support from our training provider as we need. If we have a question about any of the workbooks we can email our mentor and she will usually get back to us within the hour. We also have a face to face review every 13 weeks to make sure we are okay, on top of this we have phone reviews and group calls every month to make sure that we are not confused about anything.

Again, I receive as much support as I need from them. My manager is brilliant, if I have any questions or I want to know more about anything within the business, she will sit down and talk it through with me to make sure I am getting what I need. They will set up more training and shadowing sessions if they think that is appropriate. They always make sure you are okay and have enough to be getting on with.

The salary pack meets all of the costs that I have, that includes things like petrol (for when I don't take the bus), digs money and social things.

There are a lot of opportunities outside of work. There are volunteering days and because we are apprentices we get to do 2. There's ride London which you can volunteer for. For me because of the area I work in there are lots of training and summits that I could potentially go to. There are also things like Christmas nights out etc.

Yes

I think Prudential is a really good place to work. It's friendly, welcoming and has been a great place for me to start my career as they really provide support for young people just leaving school.

Research the company and know what it is about, I doesn't look good if you don't know who Prudential are. The video interview is hard but you do get more than one chance to say your answer (I wasn't aware of this at the time).