Rating

9.9/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • my role involved answering the phone to customer and dealing with their queries and complaints. I deal with repairs to vehicles as well as hire vehicle and instructing cases for litigation and defending cases when other insurers want to litigate on us. we investigate liability on claims and tell customers if they are at fault or not

    10/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • i have learned better communication skills in this role by talking to customers and by talking to colleagues and other members of staff, its bettered my team work skills also as we work in teams and help each other out working off a spread sheet and giving advice where need be

    10/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • i enjoyed the programme a lot it was a hard course to learn however the company helping us offered a lot of support. the company changed fromt he first year to the second however they were both great. a lot of support is needed during these programmes and since we had that it was very enhjoyable

    9/10

  • 4. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • for my programme you are given a book to learn all the chapters, there is exam questions and they all use a certain amount of questions per chapter. this makes it easy to study and prepare for the exam that you need to sit at the end of the two years

    10/10

  • 5. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • we did receive a little bit of support from the employer but as i was in the first run of apprentices it means that over the years they have took our comments on board and have started supporting more but when i first started it was not the most support we got. The employed were pretty in the dark about the whole programme

    10/10

  • 6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
  • we did however receive a lot of support from the training provided especially in the first year, the trainer would be in every other week offering support and helping us with the studying aspect and asking for our feedback on what else was needing done whether that be study groups

    10/10

  • 7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
  • my qualification helps me out in my job role because i can use it when arguing liability or even when dealing with customer queries and complaints. I know a lot of detail about the role more than colleagues who havent completed the programme know. This helps make sure i am giving customer the best answers

    10/10

  • 8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
  • there are, there is a board game club. i am not a part of this however it is good for people who enjoy these activities. the company are always doing activities and events challenges too which they encourage every team to get involved in which is great for the moral of the department

    10/10

  • 9a. Would you recommend Direct Line to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 9b. Why?
  • it is a great place to work with great benefits for your personal life llike 50% off insurance like car home pet as well and you also get free travel insurance. its a very fun atmosphere provided by the company and managers, colleagues are always happy too so its very enjoyable


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Direct Line?
  • even though it can be stressful at times it is worth it as long as you are happy doing what you do then you wont have any issues, just remember to not think too much about any bad calls youve had after you have finshed for the day and come back to it the next day in work


Details

Level 2 Apprenticeship

Scotland

February 2019


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