ica electrical Review

start day ay 7:30am work with mentor at chosen skill and follow and learn from him on the job this may include helping in installation or altering a current asset. lunch at 12:30 again follow the work with mentor and if time in the day work on paper side of apprenticeship

I've learnt two new whole skills in the four years of being here, doing 18 months of industrial electrical work then again 18 months of instruments control and automation in the industrial workspace while also interacting and learning mechanical aspects as a day to day encounters are common the paper side is also a great way to set in stone what you have learnt recently

I enjoy the workspace and the people I work and interact with on the day to day basis, the work life balance is good even if it can be demanding from time to time, the pay is constantly being reviewed and increased and the support is sometime lack but from what I've experienced it can be found

the overall apprenticeship is very well structured and laid out on specific skilled routes you can go down, the support is good with the terms of the paper side of the scheme, but the transition from that to on site leadership is sometime stretched and incoherent. and we sometime get told two different things that clash

I personally am lucky to receive a lot of help form my onsite team with both skilled mentors take an interest of what I need to gain the qualifications to pass out, the overall central side of the apprenticeship has got better recently but at the start was infrequent and lacking fast responses

the overall support of the training provider has been very poor and slow, the feedback form them has been non existent up until the start of the year and the transition of them taking over was awful, an dive been put behind majorly because of the lack of work they have done as a company on all of my current years apprentices work.

the qualification and the scheme itself is good for overall layout and productivity, but it has not lived up to its potential because of the lack of support front the training provider and the complete incompetence of the staff, if it was handled better I would not have many complaints at all.

there are very few out of work activities that can be said other than a team building exercise once a year if employer led and a Christmas meal each year, but the social side outside of work is very limited and not very central led. the offices in reading seem to have a better social aspect that the working sites.

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it is a good company to work for as the work life balance and the work is hard but not exhausting, the money is okay and stable and if you want you can progress to different parts of the company if you was that way inclined. and we get incentives to bring in people

be confident and knowledgeable about the company, its a good company to get into but its not perfect and they don't respond if you weren't successful which can be very frustrating, so don't go around sitting by the phone, and most managers are nice enough but not suitable for the technical roles.