People Services Apprentice Review

I'm in The Early Careers Team, I help look after Apprentices, Graduates, Placement Students, Interns and Work Experience. Within my role it focuses on developing our colleagues within the early career community we plan things such as, development events, onboarding and a graduation. I put ideas forward for these events and help implement them into something which will benefit our colleagues.

Before I came to Sage I struggled with confidence in the workplace, since starting as an apprentice I have been able to push myself outside of my comfort zone with the help of my amazing colleagues and team. I have helped lead calls to the business, put together focus groups and planned an induction and graduation.

I think Sage's apprenticeship program is amazing! I really enjoy coming into work, it has so many different opportunities within and allows me to learn new things every day. Every day is different within the apprenticeship program and I truly believe that the apprentices are really looked after within this program and always have opportunities to develop.

I have enjoyed all aspects of my apprenticeship, I have had fun learning and implementing my findings into my role at Sage. It also helped me come up with new fun ideas for the apprenticeship program for example, we had a module about inductions and this enabled me to suggest some ideas for our next induction for the new cohort of apprentices/early career colleagues.

I receive maximum support from my employer. As I have mentioned previously I struggled with my confidence within the workplace and my colleagues, team and managers helped me massively with this by giving me coaching, one to ones and always being there when I needed support or was struggling with anything.

Within the professional qualification the support was fantastic, my tutor was always around for one to one's or if I had any queries about my college work. However, when it comes to the apprenticeship side of things it was all a bit up in the air about who does what as my training provider is 3rd party.

I have passed my professional qualification (CIPD) however, I am still working on my end point assessment. Whilst attending college for my qualification I really enjoyed learning about different aspects of Human Resources and seeing where I can implement these within my role to become a better People Services Apprentice for Sage.

I am part of the Diversity and Inclusion team at Sage, I find this really interesting and taking part in planning and promoting events that take place for example, Kids@Sage, Mental Health Awareness Week and Health and Wellbeing Month. There are lots of activities to get involved with such as, choir, Pride@Sage, gym classes, colleagues at Sage and there are many more.

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I really enjoy going into work as Sage are a fantastic employer and really care about each and every one of their colleagues/employees, the culture is great. I love having different things to do every day within my role to help develop our colleagues in Early Careers and brining the program to life.

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