Technology Consultant Review

General client work providing consulting advice and support to clients across a variety of industries and sectors. General work includes delivering large scale technology transformations and process improvements. This includes everything from project management and admin support work to development and/or functional work to gather client requirements and tailor solutions.

Throughout the programme I have learnt a lot of new skills, however these have been generic consulting skills and would have benefited more from targeted, technical training to better understand the work that we do. The main focus of this role has been developing general skills and improving existing skills.

I have found the programme rather disappointing on the whole. To join a three year programme and have an extra year added 2 years in has been very demoralising. There has been very little support throughout the programme, this has been particularly tough when doing a full time degree at the same time as a full time job

There is very little structure in our programme. after joining we found out that the programme was not fully defined and this has eventually lead to the extra year being added in. At times the lack of organisation and communication has been detrimental to our work and wider mental health.

Very little. In the first 2 years of the programme we had 4 apprentice leads, 2 different counsellors and 2 changes in apprentice handler. After this the roles were dissolved and we were left to deal with the college on our own. Really poor support and a real shame as the programme could have been so much better

Ada College was something of a mess when we started with them. The courses were unstructured and poorly prepared. I do think that this has started to improve as we came to the end of our course. The main issue with support has been a continually changing employee base for the college

I feel that the qualification will give me more opportunity to leave and move up in my career, having the "tick-box" of higher education complete. I do however feel that the degree itself has little effect on my day to day work and that I could complete my work to the same standard either way

There are extra curricular activities at work to get involved with, however with covid this has been massively depleted. The activities are individually led and often lack funding, as such a lot of activities you want to enter do cost money and reduce peoples ability and / or willingness to participate.

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I would not advise people to join the apprenticeship at EY. It has been poorly led and demoralising to participate in. When comparing to the other big 4 as direct competitors EY seems to be severely lagging behind. Still no defined pathway and very poor support throughout. This really needs to be improved

Only look to apply above the apprenticeship level, there are better schemes out there. Make sure you know who you are interviewing with and try to relate with them on a more personal level. Our work is about people skills primarily and this is a focus area for the interviewers