Rating

7.9/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • Staying up to date with HNC learning and assignments. Working on engineering tasks relevant to the current placement (rotating placement areas)

    9/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • Communicative, computing and software systems, mechanical and electrical principles and applications, time management.

    9/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • It's challenging and interesting.

    9/10

  • 4. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • The HNC side and some aspects of the placement side are a little chaotic and unorganised, but mostly if you apply yourself then it all falls into place.

    7/10

  • 5. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • Any issues I have had were addressed and considered seriously.

    9/10

  • 6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
  • Enough to pass the HNC

    7/10

  • 7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
  • In my current placement, not much.

    4/10

  • 8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
  • Yes plently. Apprentice and coworker events and activities

    9/10

  • 9a. Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 9b. Why?
  • If engineering, as broad as it is, fits with you then the apprenticeship is a no brainer. Good wages that go up with experience, good working opportunities, flexible working hours and plentiful support.


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems?
  • Stay on top of the HNC and you get what you give when it comes to placements.


Details

Higher Level Apprenticeship

Engineering

Portsmouth

April 2023


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