Project Management Degree Apprentice Review

Daily, I work to understand build and engineering issues and how through risk and opportunity management with a system based insight, the SRA can be brought to the left and overall benefit our customer.

Through various placements, supported through gained academic knowledge, I have gained a large variety of skills from communication, planning, estimating, stakeholder management, leadership. The scheme has been a holistic development of project management applicable skills.

The programme has had some enjoyable elements and some not so enjoyable elements; this relies solely on the placement in which I was placed. Overall, I have had a 50/50 split of placements that were fulfilling, challenging and developing whilst some have not engaged entirely.

University structure was evident and mapped from the outset nonetheless, on-the-job experience can sometimes be sporadic and movement particularly into exit roles can be clunky.

When support was needed, especially from a wellbeing perspective, it was excellent. However, when there were issues with university delivery, this was not always supported and changes were not made which subsequently reflected in academic grades. Support with placements and day-to-day work is good.

This is another element which is split between some excellent experience with some very knowledgeable tutors who go above and beyond to support achieving qualifications whilst some tutors can be less helpful and their delivery is less clear.

The project management experience gained is invaluable. especially when considering a future career and in principle helps with overall understanding. Nonetheless, as I work in a large, engineering focused company, our ways of working are much different to the practices we are taught and recommended.

There are lots of activities such as stretch, stem and countless experiences to get involved with which are useful as well as fun.

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The business has an abundance of opportunities and a culture of developing people. There are lots of academic and training opportunities with good wages and incentives.

Understand that each apprenticeship scheme is different and that the constant changes can be an adjustment, but teams are generally supportive as you move through the scheme.