Apprentice Review

My role at the moment consist of me coming to a college 5 days a week working 9 to 5. I am doing various amounts of units that will help me in the plant for working. At the moment I am fairly far through my year at college and I have a lot of the units already completed.

I have learnt a lot of new skills, some of the first skills that I learnt was how to use a milling machine and lathe accurately and how to change them and what things are used for. I feel that I have learnt a lot more in this year than I have before. Such as hydraulics and pneumatics as I now understand them but have never touched them before.

I do enjoy the programme a lot as it is getting my knowledge up but I am understanding a lot of it. If I was to struggle with some of the things I’d be able to have a good amount of support from the lecturers and other students to be able to complete it.

I think that the programme is structed well as there isn’t any confusion when trying to complete the units and everything’s changes over fairly smoothly. I am able to meet all my deadlines and haven’t been pushed too much to try and complete anything due to the amount of workload.

I’d say that I recieve an okay amount of support from my employer. If we do need help or support we can easily email them and they will be able to give us the full amount of support that they are able to give us. I have been okay without the need for a lot of support off the employer.

The college and the lecturers give us a good amount of support I haven’t had a time yet where I am not able to complete a task to my full standards due to me not understating what they are asking for us to do. If I do have a problem I am able to ask them and they can arrange times in the lesson or one on one sessions to try and complete it.

I think it has helped my time keeping and work management. I feel this because with the amount of units spread across the week I am trusted to try and get the work complimented by the lecturers to the highest standard I can. I have comfortably done this and have no trouble in meeting the deadlines.

There isn’t a lot of extra curricular activities that are given. The only one I have come across is the hiking a mountain for charity. Even though I knew about this I heard it through another colleague and didn’t see it off BMW themselves. I feel though that we are at college it is hard for us to get given information and do these activities.

Yes

I would recommend it to a friend because it is a great apprenticeship with a great company and the support you get is really good. All of this makes it really worth the pay off at the end. I have already recommended BMW to my friends and my friend has got a job here starting soon because of it.

Try and make yourself stand out in some way so that people reading your cv or someone having an interview will notice you. Try and be confident and keep relaxed in what you are talking about. Speak your ideas to other people while also letting other people speak there’s and trying to work as a team and as an individual. You have to try and be the best you can be for the company.