Business Admin Apprentice Review

Within my job role, I provide staff members with levels of personal assistance and administrative support and assisting with reception duties, which includes meeting and greeting external customers. Another part of my role is creating emails that can be sent to everyone on site advertising specific events that are coming up in the workplace. I also do some work for communications and this involves putting stories together.

I have developed my written communication through writing stories for communications. Therefore, I have learnt how to create a successful piece of promotional writing. I have developed my interpersonal skills by meeting new people therefore developing my communication skills and having the ability to work in a team and being able to build a rapport with my colleagues. I have gained more confidence and accelerated my presentation skills through our Apprentice presentation skills workshop.

I am so far really enjoying my apprentice programme. I get on really well with the other apprentices and I know I am able to seek advice from them. On top of this I am part of a lovely team who are all really supportive of both my work and college. Everyone at Siemens have been really friendly and helpful with increasing my knowledge of the business.

When I started my apprentice programme, Siemens were really organised in which they planned an induction week where we sat through training and got to know the other apprentices. They then put together a placement plan for the year for each apprentice where we would get to work in different departments. However, due to the current pandemic this has been put on hold due to departments being on split shifts.

I receive an amazing amount of support from my line manager, whether this may be for my work role or for college. My manager will support me in ways such as listening to my new ideas, helping me with projects, giving me advice and this is also the same with college. I have gone to my line manager several times and she has provided me with resources for my college work as well las helped me with questions.

When I started my apprenticeship, I was having frequent meetings every month where my training provider would talk to me about previous work I had completed, asked me how I was getting on and then set me new work. Now I have been in my role for 6 months the meetings have become less frequent and I have sometimes sent emails enquiring about something and she has not got back to me. However, on a whole my programme tutor has reassured me that I can book meetings with her whenever I need to and she will always be there to read through my work and this has been showed.

The work my training provider gives me has encouraged me and helped me to develop my knowledge about Siemens. For example I was set an organisation workbook that meant I had to go off an ask colleagues about Siemens so that I could further my knowledge and answer the questions. I have also had a stakeholders and processes workbook that has enabled me to do the same. All of this training has further increased my knowledge of the business, therefore I am performing better in my role because I know what I am doing and what I am talking about.

Yes, we have many wellbeing events that take place here at Siemens. For example, climbing the three peaks, walking for charity, running for charity, cycling ect... We also have a Christmas party and a summer party. We were meant to have a BBQ October time in 2020 but unfortunately due to the pandemic this couldn't take place. There seems to be plenty of opportunities to take part in extra-curricular activities.

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Everyone at Siemens is extremely friendly and I have the most supportive team who are helping me develop in my role, its a great environment to work in providing opportunities to gain experience in a working environment, get to know new people and to develop your personal skills. I am a very creative person, and this is something that I didn't think I would be able to showcase in this apprentice role. However, due to having the opportunity to show my skills and talents, this is something my manager has now in cooperated into my job role as its a strength of mine.

My advice would be to research the apprenticeship and Siemens Healthineers thoroughly and try and relate your personal or previous working experiences to the skills/ characteristics they are looking for as this enables them to see you are capable of performing the outstanding tasks involved in the role. Be yourself, smile and ask questions about the apprenticeship role and where it could possible lead you to after your apprenticeship. This will enable you to understand what you are working towards.