Digital & Technology Solutions Review

My apprenticeship has rotations, currently being in Digital Transformation. I work on projects, manage my time and build on my communications, business analyst, and project delivery skills. There are a wide variety of projects I get involved in and my manager has been amazing in making sure I get involved in gaining as wide experience as possible.

I have worked heavily on improving my communications skills. But I have learnt Project Management and Delivery, Software Development. I have also been allowed to work on my Visual Design skills, it is not a requirement in my area however my manager has found opportunities to. Also working on the internal training pathways, as well as doing LinkedIn Learnings for Project Management.

I love my Job, I am gaining a qualification along side working full time. The programme is ran in a way where you can connect with other apprentices as well, There is a Committee and Social Society to join and get involved with, these jointly run events to meet apprentices you otherwise wouldn't meet day-to-day. My role is exciting and diverse, I can be doing one thing and then the next week be doing something completely different and I enjoy this.

I would say very organised. There is a Programme Manager to oversee each cohort for IT specifically, There is then a "Buddy" assigned to you who is an apprentice in the year above to help you along the way. And a mentor who just finished the programme, All of these are super useful to have and friendly people. The University also give you a week by week programme for the next year of your course.

As much support as you need, there is so much of it there if you need it.

We are given 20% of our working time to work on our qualifications, so that ends up being a day per week to do university, this is managed and logged by the university and we do bi-monthly reviews to make sure we are still on track, with your manager, mentor and university success manager

The university course links very closely to my day to day job, essays are required to be contextualised to your job role in order to get higher grades, So it makes me think and apply what I learn at university to my workplace and role. As well as workplace tasks that occur weekly.

There are many different Employee Resource Groups to join, There is an apprentice social society to join, they run different types of events from coffee mornings to group trips.

Yes

I think it is a great place to work that genuinely cares about me as a person. I think anyone wanting to join here would get an amazing experience.

Researching into a course that will suit you, there are lots of different roles on offer, not just in science.