Nuclear Business Apprentice Review

My day to day role as an apprentice Project Manager involves reporting to the project team on project development and updates, managing budgets, creating documentation, planning and reporting weekly to my programme manager and assurance team. It also involves identifying potential risks to the project and mitigating and managing the risks.

During my time as an apprentice I have developed a number of skills. The first one being communication, on my first day as an apprentice I didn't even want to talk on Skype calls but I am not holding project calls to my project team and vendors. I also believe that my business writing has improved a considerable amount since being an apprentice.

I really enjoy the scheme that I am on as it is really flexible and the apprenticeship managers are able to tailor the scheme to us and what we want to achieve whilst being an apprentice. I think it is a good scheme if you want to try a variety of placements whilst being on the job.

I think that the programme is well structured in the way that we go to college once a week and for the rest of the week we are on the job in the workplace. It is also well structured because we are able to get enough off the job training time in through learning sessions that we need for our college course.

I believe I receive a lot of support from my employer as an apprentice. We receive lunch and learn session on mental health and finance in the workplace. We are able to go to drop in session with in charlies memory on site to talk about anything we want to, but we also have regular contact with our career managers to talk to them about any issues we have.

I believe that I have also received a lot of support from my training provider when working towards my qualification. I have weekly learning sessions with my college class and have my college assessor come to see me in the workplace to make sure that I am getting the training I need to complete the college course but also to develop my personal skills.

I think that my qualification has helped me perform in the workplace as I have learnt how to do simple things like equations on spreadsheets which I did not know how to do this before. My qualification has also taught me how to communicate to different stakeholders of the business.

There is the young professionals network who meet and do extra curricular activities together. There is also the womens network which as been set up to promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace. There is also a rugby team that you are able to join that trains at the sedgemoor campus.

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I would recommend EDF Energy to a friend as I think the apprenticeship schemes are really thought through and do a lot to develop there apprentices. So far I have had a really positive experience at EDF energy and have already recommended it to friends, I think that they really do the most to make the experience beneficial for us.

When applying for an apprenticeship scheme at EDF Energy I would suggest making your CV and answers to the questions as professional and high level as you can. This is going to be their first impression on you so it is very important that it is professional. I would also suggest in the interview being yourself and answering the questions truthfully .