Apprentice Review

My role within BMW is to help my department out with onging projects as well as gettin trained up so that I am skilled enough to be accepeted into the department at the end of my 3 year apprentiship. My day to day activites invole meeting in the morning so that the department can get an overview of what has been going on the previous day, then I go and work on the projects that i have been tasked with.

I have learned alot since I have been at BMW through sitting in with the experianced people within my department so that I get a feel of how projects are managed to my dedicated learning which teaches me the skills that are need to be able to do the job that I will one day take on.

I am enjoying my programme for everyday is different and I always get brought onto new projects so I get a good insite to what is happening around the plants. I also enjoy all the traveling that I get to do being able to visit all of the other plants within the UK as well as having the opertunity to go abroad.

Within my department it is well organised with them getting me to do constructive work all the time. But when it comes to the formal educational side of the appreticeship I am left a bit disappointed, for I am not able to get futher on as I would like to by this point for I have not been given the information that I need to continue.

I receive allot of support from my employer from my placement manager to my appreticship manager. It is good that there are these 2 different people within the business that you can go to for it means that If one of them are not able to help you then the likely hood is that the other one will be able to.

I recieved alot of support from my training provider at the start of my course, but it has come to a halt which has meant that i have not had any comunications with them for 4 mounths now which means that I am not able to progress with my quailification.

The training that I have got has been great and massevely helped me perform my role within my placement, for it increased my knolage form nothing to being able to look at projects that are going on around plant, seeing weither or not they are conforming to legislation or if something needs to be changed to makesure that me mitigate as much risk as possible

I get invovled with social events that occuer durring the year with my department for example christmas partys, restrant meals before workshops, as well as some sporting activitys such as football with the apprentices, This is good for it means that you get to bond with your department that you work with every day and then with other apprentices that you might not see as much.

Yes

For it is a very prestigious company to work for that when people see that you where able to get into their apprenticeship program they will be impressed, As well as the company look after their employs extremaly well and if you have any problems they will work as hard as they can to try and fix them.

When it comes to the intivews make sure that you are confident when you are talking to your potecial employers for they are going to be more impressed with you compared to someone who is not, I would also suggest that you have some knowlage of the area that you are going to be working with because their will defanetly be people who are applying who will.