Store Manager Review

The apprenticeship was very good and filled in a lot of gaps in my management knowledge. It was sometimes a struggle to let my employer give me enough time in my working week to complete the apprenticeship tasks but Paragon were always very understanding and really wanted me to succeed.

Yes, I've honed in my skills within management, time management, dealing with confrontation, under-performance. I also learnt a lot from the shared experiences of the other apprentices from differing sectors and companies.

I really enjoyed the apprenticeship and felt that it was able to offer me a lot of useful skills to enhance my management abilities. I am now able to manage a much larger workforce effectively and efficiently.

The course was very well structured and had clear goals and objectives which had clear, tangible benefits. The organisation was good and I was able to get a decent amount of one to one time with my tutor to work through elements I may have been struggling with or needed a bit of help with.

My employer was not helpful in the slightest bit unfortunately. It was almost impossible to get them to budge with giving me just 6 paid hours to complete the apprenticeship in which is the bare minimum they should've provided. MY overall experience with [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions].

The training provider has given an excellent amount of support and we were able to set up at least monthly tutorials to go over my outstanding tasks and look in detail at the work I had provided. My tutor gave me some really great tips and feedback and really helped me deal with some quite difficult situations at work.

I think that the apprenticeship gave me some great skills in management roles and they will be very transferable to future employment as I progress up to Operations Manager level and beyond. I am very glad I chose to undergo the apprenticeship and particularly that I chose the Level 5 instead of the Level 4 which is what my manager had initially suggested.

No, absolutely nothing. WE had a once a year company wide conference in Blackpool but nothing extra-curricular.

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It is without a [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] than the job market average for a job of my position in a flagship store.

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