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Responsibility:

3.7/5

Work Life Balance:

5/5

Environmental Awareness:

4.7/5

Benefits:

3/5

Company Culture:

5/5

Career Progression:

3.7/5

Colleagues:

5/5

Training:

4.3/5

Enjoyment:

4.3/5

Overall Rating:

4.3/5

Lewis Business Media Ltd (LBM) was formed in February 2012 by the Lewis family. Based in Uckfield in East Sussex, the business is now a multi-platform media business operating in a number of B2B markets. It has grown rapidly from nothing to a substantial business employing 20+ people around the world and with a large network of contracted freelancers.

Our philosophy is all about reader engagement. We provide opportunities for our readers and users to enhance their knowledge and awareness and develop their companies and careers as appropriate across all the markets in which we operate. These opportunities range from live events, such as awards, round-tables, conferences and exhibitions, though websites, newsletters, social media, on and off-line training programmes as well as traditional print media. This business model then allows us to offer access to this engaged audience to our commercial partners.

LBM take on a small number of graduates and apprentices every year in a variety of disciplines. Please see our website for our latest vacancies.

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Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Bricklayer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people I work with are all good and help with anything and teach me lots. It’s a good place for me to learn bricklaying as there’s lots of detail in the brickwork compare to most

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Flight Simulator Technician

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Having a team I can ask for help
The pay
The chance to learn again

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I get lots of responsibility, I am trusted to work and complete my job role and I get lots of support from my employer.

Industry: Retail Department: Buying Admin- Home

What are the best and worst things about your job?

-My Colleagues
-Flexibility (currently is great)
-support from supervisors and managers.

Industry: Retail Department: Accessories

What are the best and worst things about your job?

meeting so many people constantly even though we have been working from home. there is something new everyday and they are so good about development and want you to succeed and be the best you.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Private Client tax

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good, flexible working hours
Plenty of support from other trainees through to managers

Industry: Retail Department: Customer Service

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being about to offer this apprenticeship and also keeping everyone on through this pandemic.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Health and Safety

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great team.
Flexible working.
Support.
Progression and opportunities.
Pay rises.
Continuous learning.
Challenging.

Industry: Retail Department: Accessories

What are the best and worst things about your job?

support offered by everyone at work, supervisors managers, buyers and bms

Industry: Retail Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Opportunity for development
The managers
Being able to make an impact

Industry: Retail Department: buying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I get to speak to lots of people from all around the company with all different job roles.
I hear a lot about others experience and learnt a lot everyday with lots of new tasks.

Industry: Retail Department: Buying Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about my job is being involved in different teams, and learning from each of these. Teamwork is especially important in my role, as it requires input from the Buyers and Merchandisers. The job definitely helps you build relationships with many people in the company, which is so important.

Industry: Retail Department: Customer Service

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working with a wide range of people and building relationships with them

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Womenswear

What are the best and worst things about your job?

As an apprentice I was worried there would be a stigma that I was the 'newbie' and everyone in my new team would give me the work they didn't want to do etc. but it was the complete opposite. I was met with trust and given the responsibility to work at the same level with the other members of my team straight away and it definitely grew my confidence.

Industry: Retail Department: Customer Service

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My colleagues
The hours
The pay
The progression
Very inclusive company

Industry: Law Department: Legal and Governance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Supportive team

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There is a flexible working system which means that you have no fixed start / finish time, and can arrive / leave when you want each day (within reason). You also get every-other Friday off.

As an apprentice you get to work alongside experienced team members and are given proper responsibility and meaningful jobs to complete. You get to move around different teams in the company experiencing a range of different work.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Supply

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Interesting jobs that is crucial to getting right for potable water to leave site. Gives a sense of meaningfulness.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: NA

Industry: Law Department: Core Real Estate

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The opportunity to work in different teams and to try out different areas of law. The responsibility of running your own matters and communicating with clients.

Industry: Law Department: Structured Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best things are the people I work with within the firm, the clients we work for and the work I have exposure to. Everyone is super helpful and wants to help you do well. Our clients are understanding and are always more than happy to discuss matters. I am currently working on a large benchmark reform project for a key client of the firm, which is really interesting and is challenging me every day.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Network Expansion/Build Engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing is working closely with the community when completing a build, delivering services to areas that really want it is really good for brand image and awareness but also the vibe of the community.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: VMB

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Career opportunities

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Technical Build

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It's a flexible job and there is something new to learn every day.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Financial Risk

What are the best and worst things about your job?

opportunity for intellectual work and develop lots of different skills

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning and Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I can safely say everything. I enjoy my day-to-day role. I am given plenty opportunities to partake and volunteer in extra opportunities and have an incredibly supportive team.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Transmission Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Responsibility, solving problems and constantly learrning

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Network Engineer- Build Team

What are the best and worst things about your job?

most things

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning

What are the best and worst things about your job?

great team where everyone will help out

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Fantastic colleagues, who support and tutor you; Access to efficient systems, which has been an excellent tool during lockdown.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Planning

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everything

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Clean work environment
Majority of the time the computers work
Managers are friendly as well as the apprenticeship leader

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Services - field operative

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working outside city centers, focuse on the task and how to safely do it.

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Learning and Development

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about my job would be the colleagues, management and support around me. I enjoy working as I am surrounded by positive, like minded people who are always open to help and aid me when necessary.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Programme Management

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Variety of tasks I get involved in. Given responsibility to manage projects whilst receiving support to be able to do so. Read more

Industry: Retail Department: Customer Service

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Colleagues Challenges Environment (when in office) Flexibility Fast pace Banter Opportunities Customers Knowing you've helped someone Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Central Technical

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good working environment and team

Industry: Retail Department: Active And basics

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Every day is different the support is second to none very fun and well paced with work excellent facilities Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: finance

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The flexibilty to manage my own work load and how supportive it is with work life balance. As a company they emphasise the importance of well-being which is great and the actual job is very interesting.

Industry: Retail Department: Buying

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The training is very good & detailed, it does not feel overwhelming. When you start working independently you feel prepared, and everyone is willing to help if you need anything. The role allows you to communicate with lots of people, both internally & externally. You get the opportunity to work both independently & in a team. The job allows you to progress higher in the company. The salary is also good for an apprenticeship. Read more

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: HR

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

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Learning new technique and skills i.e. ways to use hammers/power tools Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Digital Energy End user projects

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Independence, actually contributing to jobs and feeling generally productive. you feel like a high value asset to the company.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning and engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?
My team are so supportive and encouraging, I feel very welcome in the team. Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: PMO

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Friendly team members, I have been welcomed. Work I have is always challenging and interesting. I am working from home, so feel very secure during COVID. Read more

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: materials

What are the best and worst things about your job?
That I will have a chance to progress as far as I want and I am surronded with support Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning and Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Flexibility Ability to work on whatever I am interested in Career and salary progression Emphasis on personal development and learning opportunities Lots of recognition Read more

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: IT

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Flexibility in how I work, and the training provided.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: RMS

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working along side pilots who are training on multi engine and elementary fight training as well as members of our team to learn their stories and experiences they've had in and around aircraft Read more

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Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Marine services

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The variety of work that we do the people I work with the vessels I work on Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Civil Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working through the processes of civil engineering projects: From planning and walking the routes to check the most efficient route to organising and managing throughout the project and all of the steps necessary to finishing the job. Additionally, working with other organisations and different departments within the company enables me to understand the whole purpose from a project management perspective. Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Casualty

What are the best and worst things about your job?

-Chaucer values/ Chaucer as a company
-colleagues
-day to day tasks (especially when we could go to the Lloyd's box)

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Digital Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

A lot of things to learn. Every day there is something new. Since I am in an engineering role. I have an opportunity to travel to customers site's, have insights into the industry a lot of great emotions and experiences

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Planning

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The flexibility is great at the moment. The amount of people surrounding me for support. Training opportunity alongside work. Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Being involved in a physical job, and having friendly colleagues. Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Infrastructure

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being involved in a project that will in future be in use by the public and possibly yourself.

The variety of different people of different backgrounds that you work with.

Problem solving.

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Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Colleagues are always happy to help

Industry: Retail Department: Bedding

What are the best and worst things about your job?
being so ffriendly and welcomed throughout the whole business being treated as someone important from day one having so many people invested in my development Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Design Management

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good working enviroment

Industry: Retail Department: Shoes

What are the best and worst things about your job?
being able to learn from a great team who are always willing to help Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Croudace

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The people there Read more

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?
You are given responsibility from day 1 but always have support and advice when needed. This can be intense at first but it allows you to grow and gain so much confidence in a short amount of time. Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Network Expansion

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Best thing is that no day is the same. There was a good mixture of going out on site (reduced now due to the pandemic) and being in the office or working from home.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: CTIO

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Very good ethics and communication between the ranks Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Experiencing teamwork and working at speed And learning new things Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: B2B

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Supportive managers
Loads of training avaiable
Company will support you

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Missiles and fire control

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Just a cool job, working with items that every oy dreams of. Also the training opturnites as well and the help and support if you want to progress your career.

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Supply Chain Solutions

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The people. I am yet to meet a single person I do not like or who is not willing to help me progress and achieve what I want to achieve throughout my apprenticeship. There is a wonderful support network available. Read more

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Defence

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Control over my working hours.
Colleagues who are accommodating and insightful
Getting involved in important projects early on to gain experience

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Early Careers

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working with other people and being part of a team. Having a lot of support and being given responsibility and being trusted in my work. Read more

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Legal

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great colleagues, lots of support and a collaborative approach.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Spalding deli

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The endless amount of jobs that need doing so your always busy Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Parki ng maintenance

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Leaning new things. Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Property

What are the best and worst things about your job?
My team is very friendly and happy to help me with different tasks I am trying to do. The very limited times I have been in to the office it has seemed really lovely and a nice work atmosphere. Even though teams do not typically mix, I have been able to talk to people in the other teams in the department and have all been friendly and nice to have a chat with. Being a woman in STEM, quite often there is a huge gender gap in the organisation, but outside of my immediate team, most of the department seems to be really well mixed. Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Financial Risk

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people, my managers, th work I get is really interesting and there is a clear path for me to develop

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Getting responsibility to do tasks and projects Read more

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Network Ops/Training

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The job is interesting and everyone is great to work with

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The best thing is the team around me. Every single member of the team is keen to help me get stuck in and help me learn, they have all offered me some work to help out with at some point and I've found this really beneficial. Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Network Expansion

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Challenging and interesting. Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: network expansion

What are the best and worst things about your job?
flexible, good work/life balance, weekends off, good colleagues Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction

What are the best and worst things about your job?
it is a challenging and fun job to do in all aspects of the job. Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: bengeworth

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everything! Balance between work and lifestyle

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Tra

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Very supportive team and management.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: MFTS

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Retention

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Being able to support others Being part of a team Seeing people grow professionally Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Wholesale

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Application Development

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The projects that I take part in are always different from each other which means work doesn't get boring or repetitive. I'm always involved in the team and whenever help is required it is always available. Read more

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Data Science

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Easy to talk to and helpful team Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Business Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The role is very varied meaning I have learnt a large amount quite quickly within different parts of the underwriting process. This was ideal as I was starting out in my career. I also get to work with both operations and underwriting teams meaning I have a large circle of communication within the company which I enjoy. The work is challenging for me which I enjoy as it keeps me motivated, but there is a chain of support for me so that I can ask for advise when I need it, be that from my line-manager of colleagues. The company atmosphere has been so friendly sand welcoming which has made joining Chaucer stress-free and enjoyable. Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: engineering

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Manufacturing

What are the best and worst things about your job?
I get to do what i enjoy Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Human Resourses

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Work colleagues,

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Digital Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Schneider are really driven to give apprentices a lot of responsibility from day one. You need to sort out your own work placements, find a mentor to teach you right at the beginning and find your own role within the company. This really helps to settle you into the busniess and meet a lot of experienced colleagues that you can learn from. Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Anglian water

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Everything that comes with the job is excellent it would be impossible to choose just one thing. Read more

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The role can be very rewarding and give you a real sense of achievement when you find someone a great role Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: emergancy breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

working with customers, providing service to our customers

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Transport - M&S Peterborough

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Responsibilities Socializing (not really now that the COVID rules are in place) Working around difficult tasks Problem Solving Flexibility, and being given different internal opportunities Study Days Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Build

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Teammates The progression The hours The responsibility Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Emerging Talent

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The level of responsibility I had during my apprenticeship allowed me to push and develop myself.

Industry: Retail Department: Buying and Merchandising - Kids and Toys

What are the best and worst things about your job?
- Everybody is willing to help you to be able to succeed - No question is a silly question - Building new relationships - Support is available whenever needed - Every day is different - Work/life balance, flexi hours are offered which is great - Being able to gain a qualification, whilst also learning the job role Read more

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working for an excellent, supportive organisation. Being given scope to fulfil the role without large amounts of supervision. Working with individuals who are business-focussed, intelligent & insightful. The work / life balance is good & the organisation genuinely cares about its people & customers. Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning

What are the best and worst things about your job?
A friendly team and a work evironment that truly care about the welfare of employees Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Digital Power

What are the best and worst things about your job?
the variety and the fact that you work behind the scenes Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Recovery

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people (family) and the support available

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Talent - Learning & Development

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best things about my job are communicating with colleagues from all over the business and being able to help develop them and offer advice. I also love being able having a wide range of different tasks to be doing.

Industry: Retail Department: 55

What are the best and worst things about your job?
I have a great team and great support. Read more

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: New Product Development

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Creativity The team i work with Location Hours Busy working days Read more

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Service Delivewry

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Pre-Construction, GT Construction Building North West

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Varied workloads and projects in which you learn and develop skills on every project. Winning a project you have worked on. Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Apprentice

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working outside and hands on Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Customer Service Advisor

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My Colleagues

Industry: Law Department: Real Estate

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Career progression and exposure to various tasks Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Being an integral part of real world change, upgrading / installing fibre infrastructure for businesses throughout Yorkshire A brilliant work culture Clear role & responsibilities Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Amazing support constantly the pay is great for an apprenticeship and they really appreciate what you do.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Health Safety and Environment

What are the best and worst things about your job?
flexibility and great team Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Health and Safety

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working with a large team spread across the whole of UK verbal communication at all times of the day support from mentors Ride outs Flexibility Working hours Salary Read more

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Cyber Security

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Flexible working environment, good colleuges, good support system. The work is varied and interesting, but still aligns itself with the university syllabus best it can Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Legal

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Career progression and exposure we get. Read more

Industry: Retail Department: Customer service

What are the best and worst things about your job?
company values Staff Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Business Services

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: MFH-E

What are the best and worst things about your job?
- You get a very comprehensive understanding of how the company (and exchenages) work - Usually very nice collegues who are willing to teach and explain a lot so that you get both theoretical knowledge and pratical experience during the rotations - Since we are still going to school we also get more general knowlege in economical, political aspects - Very nice external work shops (e.g. time management) Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I get to speak to lots of different people on a daily basis. I work with a great team and I am able to learn new things everyday. I am enjoying my role and working in Talent Acquisition.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Group Internal Audit

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Job satisfaction when work is completed well and good feedback is received Working with lovely people Great organisation so proud to work at NFUM Management of people allows me to help and support them and see improvements Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: Law Department: Real Estate

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The colleagues and responsibility of work Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Property

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The role is challenging and I am constantly learning new things and am given a lot of training and support from my colleagues. Read more

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: HR Technical Training

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Colleagues The work is varied, (rarely do the same thing two/three days in a row Available training and support Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Simulation Technician

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Work colleagues, opportunities, training, experience, salary and flexibility with your daily life. Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Digital energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Flexibility of the role and how open the company is to getting you to a place you want to be Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Site Exits

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working within a team that offers great support and guidance and which helps to give me opportunities to understand the role and develop skills to help me progress. Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Audit and Accounts

What are the best and worst things about your job?
I really enjoy the work and the responsibilities I've been given I feel it's given me a chance to learn more and show off and practice what I have learnt. I enjoy planning, problem solving and leadership. While I do not have the experience to lead yet, I can see obvious progression within the company and they really help me to learn. Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My job is very rewarding, speaking with members everyday and being there for them when they are in dangerous locations and getting assistance and help to them as soon as possible. Everyone is very approachable and if you need any help there is always someone to support you.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Constantly learning, possible progression, and a fulfilling job. Read more

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Support is constant so you always have some to reach out to. Read more

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Wholesale

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Marine services

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The training and the people. Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Techincal Site Build Engineers

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Very fun job, lots of high tech and big machines. Great and very helpful mentors and managers. Read more

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Training

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The team I work with; I learn more every day about both my job and the wider world. Crazy amount of variety of what I can do at work. The culture is becoming something better daily, we now have so much focus on sustainability and innovation that it truly feels like we are leading the rest of the world into the future. Read more

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Business Planning - Network Expansion

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Carrying out customer site surveys. Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Team mates and manager Read more

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Build

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I meet new people everyday.
My team are lovely and welcoming
Great career opportunities and gaining skills and knowledge

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Get to learn and be paid for something i want to do as a career.

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Transport

What are the best and worst things about your job?
The best thing about my job is having opportunities to get stuck in learning about the industry and completing individual group tasks and projects. I really enjoy working with a variety of like minded people of all ages from different sectors of the business. Also the opportunities to develop myself and the future potential within the business is very exciting and rewarding. Read more

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Health and Safety

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is a very sociable role and there is lots to learn and get involved in. There is also so many different things within the role that I didn't realise was part of Health and Safety.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Motor Insurance

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Supporting people and watching them grown and develop Read more

Industry: Retail Department: Customer Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working with such supportive people, some of the people who I met through this job have become some of my closest friends not just inside of work Read more

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Underwriting

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working in a team that is supportive and will help you if any problems arise. Also the flexibility of tasks that you have to do on a day to day basis. Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: R&D

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Challenging work, lots of opportunities for learning/training.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Activation Engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Continuous learning Read more

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Network Expansion

What are the best and worst things about your job?
Flexibility, progression oppotunities Read more

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Technical

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There is always something different to do day in and day out.
I have learnt something new every day I have been here for the last 3 months.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

varied work as an engineer
goo

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being part of a valued team, who work together and communicate well. We all value each other, and are valued by the wider team. We all encourage each other and are willing to help.
As an apprentice I feel welcome, and able to further my learning comfortably, but it is also great that you learn a lot just from your team, whether it is quirks of the job role, their past experiences, or information directly related to your course.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Job security

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: fruit heatseal

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The role I am in has many step ups and the team around me are always trying to take me to the next step and achieve the most out of this apprenticeship as possible.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Linesperson

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The support you get by the company

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Linesperson

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Work environment

Pay

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Civil Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There is a lot to learn with a lot of responsibility which gives job satisfaction.

Industry: Retail Department: VMB Planning

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Best so far is Virgin Media is a very self-driven company, so your progression and time management of tasks, is in your hands.

Industry: Retail Department: Human Resources

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: network expansion

What are the best and worst things about your job?

different task everyday
Fun and supportive team

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Technical

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Colleagues are friendly.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Digital Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day is different and gives you an opportunity to learn

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Digital Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- Variety of work
- Lots of career opportunities and progression
- Smart, experienced and friendly colleagues
- Market-leading R&D
- Reflective salary, benefits package and pension
- ethical, diverse and sustainable company with good morals
- Lots of training

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Digital Energy

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Highways

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about my job is learning new skills and doing carrying out different tasks everyday.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Quantity Surveyor

What are the best and worst things about your job?

working in a live constrution enviroment with good team members withina company that supports its younger / developing staff and treats them with the level of responsability and accountability siuited to their position

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Commercial

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Building Central Scotland

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good People
Solving problems
Earning money, getting a degree and experience at the same time
Lots of training opportunities

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Highways

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working with other people
Working outside as well as in the office
Having a level of responsibility/feeling needed

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I like that every single day is different and with every new task I learn a little more about the construction industry.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the best thing about my job is the colleagues I work with and the amount of support and training they provide.
secondly is the amount of different scenarios and job that we go to, this could range from faulty motors to blades being damaged and etc.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The engineering team are very helpful when on a job and when on a break down they give you as many opportunites as possible to work on the breakdown either with them or alone.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Colleagues

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: London South East

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning from people with experience because in class education it's more about the most ideal situation.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: London South East

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning from people with experience because in class education it's more about the most ideal situation.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: London South East

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning from people with experience because in class education it's more about the most ideal situation.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

love being able to use tools and have a hands on job

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great team,
Chilled environment ,
Company van and uniform,
Weekends off,
Friendly management,
Keeps you for.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: London Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Your in a different environment every job each job is different with different people and different situations

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: UK Power Network Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I have brilliant managers that help and support me on a daily basis.
I work with a good close nit team.
Help is always available whenever you need it.
The work varies from day to day to it keeps it interesting and everyday is a leaning opportunity.

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Payroll

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Personal and professional development

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: IT

What are the best and worst things about your job?

A large degree of independence.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Freedom

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency

What are the best and worst things about your job?

No one job is the same

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: North West Scheduling & Dispatch

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Communicating with internal and external customers daily.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Assurance and Reporting

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Leading a team to deliver outputs, developing individuals

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being a rotational scheme, it is great to gain exposure to all different areas of finance, and many different management styles to help you get of where and who with you work best and enjoy the most. Everyone I have come across has been more than helpful and has always tried very hard to welcome me to the company.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Pay and conditions, opportunities for progression, training, interesting work, can be challenging and stimulating

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: FCO

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Variety

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas

What are the best and worst things about your job?

No two jobs are the same

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Building East Mildands

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- Negotiating either in Procurement or Final account stages.
- Commercial awareness through completing interim valuations each month.
- Decision making when valuing applications
-Problem solving by using VE to create margin or reduce costs in a package
-Analysing and investigating through commercial reporting.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Casualty

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best things about my job is that I am learning about the Insurance market as well as gaining experience in the market. In addition, the work environment and colleagues are both positives to my job as I get along with the people I work with and therefore, work well as a team.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The trust and responsibility

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Development

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The problem solving and creative thought required to bring a product to life and eventually see it on a shelf ready for consumers to try

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Connections

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Looking at ways to make improvements to processes and customer service

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

You learn something new everyday

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Apprentice

Industry: Law Department: Enforcement

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My team are incredibly friendly and helpful.
I challenged daily with different tasks.
Flexibility and understanding that working from home can be difficult.
The sense of community,

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Enforcement

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My team is great and the work we do helps people and that is what attracted me to work for the FCA in the first place. Everyone is so supportive and friendly.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Human Resources

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Data centre & Cloud

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Sometimes it can get really busy and it feels like the whole team is working together towards one joint goal.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpenter

What are the best and worst things about your job?

A good team of people to work with

Industry: Consulting Department: Social care and social work.

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Lots of new opportunities within the council to branch into new career areas. Always something new to learn and have a go at to expand your skills base.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Outsourcing

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accounts

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: UK Fit Out

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Team culture, clients, projects, training, University

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Fit Out

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning new skills everyday

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Fit Out Division

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Very interesting and engaging. There is never a time where you are bored.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Claims

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Leading and managing people

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team of people working with and the lifestyle benefits provided by the company.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Fit out

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Team work is the best thing for me. Coming to work looking forward to working with the ISG team.
They understand that your just an apprentice and have university work to do as well. Which is nice as you can ask if you need time to do uni work that are understanding.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Outsourcing

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everyone's friendly and will take the time to explain & show me things I don't completely understand

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: UK Retail

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- The team and colleagues I work with
- The actual work I do
- Learning new things

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: HR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team I work within and the overall feel of the organisation.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accounts

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Engineering Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being able to meet and communicate with people every day and being part of a team.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Water

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Its hands-on and physical so it keeps you on your feet.

Industry: Retail Department: Retail

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Design

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I have a good relationship with my colleagues and they are always ready to help with any issues I may have.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Bioresources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working with a great team who I get along with very well. Being out and about, one my feet all day.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Central Operations

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I love the day to day life it gives me, there's lots of chances for self satisfaction and you go home feeling like you've had a successful day
The freedom to go and interact with customers, problem solve and think of new ideas is great and it keeps you very engaged

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Sewage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everyday is different and unpredictable

Industry: Law Department: Family

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team that I work with are very helpful and work with me to help develop my skills.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Sales

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

-Everyday is different
-Working in a team

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Prestige Centre

What are the best and worst things about your job?

salary, work/life balance

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Flexible

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Operate and Maintain

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Meeting new people, greater opportunities

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Field Force

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Never knowing what each day will hold. Every day is different

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: gas

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good team

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: NW

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the people you work with

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Cap D

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Different challenges on a daily basis

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Operate and maintain

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Policy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everyone is really friendly and always happy to help,
It's a really comfortable environment so most of the time you can work at your own pace,
The salary and benefits package is really good,
You get study leave so you have a good work/life balance

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Planning

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Network Expansion

What are the best and worst things about your job?

CHALLENGINE
WORKING IN FIELD

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Joinery

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people I work with
The variety in work across sites

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Buying

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Linesman

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: network operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

pick your own jobs most days

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Apprentice Fitter

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Amazing support, every colleague is friendly, the amount of available training and progression in the company is brilliant.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Jointing

What are the best and worst things about your job?

being able to be at a different location on different jobs every day. meeting a wide range of people.
feeling like your making a difference keeping the lights on and making sure people have electricity to stay warm cook dinner.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Emergency Response

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The training on offer is amazing, all the trainers and mentors are very knowledgeable in the role and always are there to answer any questions and support you.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being given lots of chances to problem solve and ownership over certain projects

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency Response and Repair

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Gas engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The variety of different jobs you get.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: HR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Problem solving and being incharge of the job

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: FCO

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The different tasks

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Lots of variety to each day, good learning opportunities, welcome in all settings and everyone is happy to explain anything in detail especially engineering terms I had no understanding of

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Cadent

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Variety

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Network Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great security, great opportunities for progression if you want them, decent set of colleagues (everyone is willing to help), good pay

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: FCO

What are the best and worst things about your job?

everyday is different
it can be an active job
everyone is sound

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Emergency

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- work life balance
- progression available
- friendly staff
- help always available

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Field Force

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is as far away from your typical 9-5 office job because you are always going to different properties.
Being able to help people who are in need (and some customers ask many questions)
As an apprentice being able to get on very well with my tutor and a couple other engineers who are happy for you to jump on jobs with them to gain more experience and information

Every job that you attend is different, one job can be a reported smell of gas in a domestic property that results in a no trace (everything is fine there are no current gas leaks)
or it can be a severe gas leak which can not be turned off at the ECV for various reasons and the property is full of gas. This is when you have to act and think very quickly to resolve the emergency issue

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Capital program

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Emergancy Response

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Cas

What are the best and worst things about your job?

customer satisfaction, everyday is different

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency Response

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Sense of purpose and pride, knowing you're helping people stay safe,warm,and have access to hot water, when safe to do so, and potentially saving lives at other times.

My area's quiet, so sometimes you get some downtime, which is nice to spend time with family, or doing odd jobs, or sorting van out etc.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas Distribution

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The variation in my day to day role.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day is different.

Meet new and different people every day.

Can be challenging and enjoyable.

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Challenging work and the responsibilities that i am given.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It's fun and there's something to do every day.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Customer Centre

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Supporting development and watching my team grow.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Group Internal Audit Department

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Operate and Maintain

What are the best and worst things about your job?

For an apprentice the money is very good and its mentally challenging and interesting most of the time.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Network Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Tackling different challenges each day and working with others to solve small and large problems. Being able to restore power to customers and help vulnerable people without electricity. Great colleagues and cooperative work environment.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

working with my hands and every day is different

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: PC&S

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Insurance

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best things about the job is that you deal with different scenarios everyday and learn how to make sure our members are safe and knowing you have dealt with their problem and got them the help they needed.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

being able to help people and develop them to be the best versions they can be of themselves

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I love to learn about all areas of the business and the support you get allows you to do this. You get a lot of support from the managers as long as you show you can put the work in.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Intervention

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Hoping the team develop and grow! I love progression and helping the guys get to their gaols. I also love seeing strong stats on the board

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Supply Chain

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Lots of work, doesn't get boring

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Talent & Development

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I find my role very straightforward, and very rarely find it stressful (however if that were the case I know I have a good team members I can ask for help from)
I have a very friendly team who are/were very welcoming

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Connected Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

All the managers I have worked alongside are open to listen to your ideas. They care and show compassion. In a big company this usually goes amiss but the AA is one of the companies I have worked for where it has always been consistent. The hierarchy is clear and everyone is open for a chat.

Industry: Charity, Education & Public Sector Department: Field based

What are the best and worst things about your job?

flexi working

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: n/a

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good on CV

Industry: Charity, Education & Public Sector Department: office based

What are the best and worst things about your job?

rewarding

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: n/a

What are the best and worst things about your job?

good on CV

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The amount of training and opportunities that I have already had in the passed 2 years.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: office based

Industry: Law Department: Court of Protection

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The range of work
Training
Good management

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: field based

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Free food on expenses whilst at hotels.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Water Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Meeting new people and seeing how the different sites differ from one another

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Varied tasks and challenges day to day; trusted to make own decisions; friendly environment.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Your get massive amounts of support from colleagues and every day is never the same as the last.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Different Challenges each day and different locations. Lots of progression in the job is there. Exciting and lots of analysing and investigating.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Utilities - Waste and Water

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Friendly helpfully company environment
Providing customers with an essential resource and service

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Work life balance, job security, great benefits package

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Group Transformation

What are the best and worst things about your job?

its different everyday and you get to meet loads of people around the business

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: FCO

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Meeting new people

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Team work

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Networking

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great team that are eager to work and get the job done.
Pick up very useful life skills
Knowledge enhances within the sector you work in alongside your communication skills and IT skills
Good pay for an apprentice
Getting the opportunity to work towards a BTEC and NVQ so you would have the qualifications to back up your experience also

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Supervision

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Lots of trust, independence and you're seen as equal to other colleagues.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: emergency

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everyday is different, is rewarding when faced with a challenge that you solve.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: PC+S operate and maintain

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Always a different day which makes the motivation of the job good.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas

What are the best and worst things about your job?

People

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Customer Operations (Emergency Dispatch)

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The rewarding feeling of having a successful day, meeting all customers expectations when delivering a safe response to gas emergency's within the organisations standards of service.

Working closely with a team that equally want to succeed in delivering the organisations objectives.

The Team spirit

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Pressure Management

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I enjoy working with someone else as I'm used to working by myself and one person would do something where as I'd do something else. just working as a small team really.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: HR

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: FCO

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Responsibility and accomploishment.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Emergency First Call Operative

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being trained in a technical skill and being taught life skills along with the training

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working local

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Outside work

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Water treatment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The work life.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Information Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The amazing people I get to work with and all the opportunities

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency Response

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Flexible work, different shifts, work suits me

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The versatility
Being challenged
Able to develop your skillset by getting involved in opportunities.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Information services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The freedom to explore routes of interest, the openness of professionals who are willing to put their time aside to help answer any questions I have in relation to prospects.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: M and e

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The work itself

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Data Analysing (Future Devlopment Team)

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about the day-to-day job itself is the variety. We work an all different software and have different projects all the time so you never get bored of doing one thing. If you find that one this is getting repetitive or you are not in the headspace, you can move it something else and come back to it. As long as you get the work done and meet any deadlines, do it whatever way that suits you best.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Diversity of the role, working in a team and problem solving.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Insurance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Providing support to the team to help them reach their goals

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Fco

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Going to work and learning the trade hands on.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: ISELL

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Fco

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Responsibilities

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Training whilst undertaking a role.
Communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
Problem solving opportunities.
The ability to attend site and be in the office.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Capital program

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Training provided

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Motor Insurance FNOL

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people, the work load and the fact that I work from home.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working environment

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Financial Risk

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Support for training and exams

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Large loss claims

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The supportive team.
The career opportunities.
The interest that the NFU Mutual have in you as an individual.
The interesting work and caseload.
The sociable working hours.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: On site

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The work environment and the enjoyable work

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Markets Policy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- The people I work with are great and very easy to get along with
- I get to work on cool projects
- I have the opportunity to learn from some brilliant minded colleagues

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: HR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

-I can improve my knowledge everyday
-meet new people and build a network

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Finance and Credit Risk

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I get to work with many different people on a daily basis and take great pride in being able to support my colleagues as best as I can.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about my job are probably the people around me. Everyone is highly motivated and it is very inspiring.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Functional Controlling

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great colllegues to work with
Working with different softwares
Developing IT skills,
Being able to gain a valuable qualification

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Roadside Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Flexibility of working hours

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Human Recources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Rotating teams to get an overall view of the different departments within HR

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Infrastructure - Highways

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being able to work from home and flexibility over the past year. Being supported by others when I have needed help.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- working in a team
- organising

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Retail

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- The people

- Variety of work

- Responsibilities

- Locations

Industry: Retail Department: Retail

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great team working and good on CV

Industry: Charity, Education & Public Sector Department: health and social care

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good on CV

Industry: Charity, Education & Public Sector Department: Nursing

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Support & training, Good on CV

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Apprentice

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Excellent support and training

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Apprentice

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good on CV

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Accounts

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Training and good on CV

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: apprentice

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great team working

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Retail

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Banking

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The training offered.

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Sales

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Highly respected company to have worked for. Great for my CV

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Business

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Recognisable company to have on your CV

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Audit

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Prestigious company to work for

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Prestigious company to work for

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: West Midlands Resource Management

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working closely with Operations is very rewarding and we are quite often acknowledged for good contributions or ideas

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Gas engineer

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: FCO emergency engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Very relaxed job, stay at home basis if you don’t have a job on your screen (reactive based work) out in real life to day to day meeting new people solving peoples problems. Can’t fault the job it’s self just the working hours possibly only downfall

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There seems to be a lot of support from line managers who are very understanding and easy to talk to

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

Industry: Law Department: Real Estate

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good on CV

Industry: Law Department: Real Estate

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good on CV with a great team !

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Asset Data Update and Streetworks

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There are several opportunities to grow, and really supportive line managers in help to support with this

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Road operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Field-based
Flexible
Working with people
Good company

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency Response

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Varying work, different challenges and situations each day keep this role interesting.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Gas Engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Outward bounds.
Spending time with other apprentices.
Making new mates.
Learning new skills.
Using new tools.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Opportunity to complete rotational placements as well as the work culture

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Responsibility, freedom & culture.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: FCO

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Gas Emergency

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The training given for my job is amazing aswell as the independence given for this role.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Gas Engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

New challenges every day. Large array of skills to be learnt and can be transferred in to other jobs. Meet a lot of people/customers who are usually very kind and understanding.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Water

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Work lots within a team and very rewarding after getting tasks done

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working outside in a enjoyable role with varied tasks everyday.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Claims department

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is very rewarding when you are able to close a complicated claim.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Payments

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It keeps me organised and motivated to know my organisational skills, reflect on those I support on a day-to-day basis.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working with lots of different people

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Hollinwood

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Company benefits

Salary progression

The training facilities and instructors.

Using high spec modern equipment

Company management is very well organised and always offers support.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Gas Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Shifts

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Technology, Resilience & Cyber

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day is different so it's never boring. It's super flexible and I manage my work load to what suits me best. I have lots of support and a great team around me.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the fact we get to go around to peoples houses and make them safe and help them out, meeting different types of people

Industry: Property & House Building Department: TW-NT

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Operatives

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Doing the practical work. Learning new things.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Gas

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The bonds built so far, I'm approaching to my sixth month of my apprenticeship & I've learnt that working at Cadent gifts me the opportunity to able to structure my work ethic & team working kills.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

no day is ever the same, meeting new people, new challenges, thinking on your feet

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: NIS

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Colleagues

Industry: Law Department: Criminal Disclosure Unit

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Amazing support from my manager and team members
Easy to talk to everyone and ask questions without feeling silly
Good variety of work

Industry: Law Department: Tax, Trust and Estates

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The firm are really flexible for example in the ways we work, whether we wish to work from home certain days etc. We have great benefits such as bonuses and the firm are always eager to train you and are extremely supportive.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Human Resources

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: NIS

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Colleagues

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Fco

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day different

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Enforcement

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everyday is different at the FCA we are always reacting and trying to predict the financial world which is often varied and unpredictable. I love that I can work for a company with strong ethics and morals with the driving force of our work to be to help consumers.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Supervision - OPBAS

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team I work with
The challenging tasks

Industry: Law Department: IT

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- Excellent work/life balance & flexibility to alter times if necessary
- Support is available
- Friendly colleagues

Industry: Law Department: Family

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My colleagues are fabulous and always happy to help and explain. I have learnt and continue to learn so much from my colleagues.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Water Supply

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great group of people I work with, who are helpful and create an enjoyable working atmosphere.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Building and Infrastructure

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The ability to go out on site occasionally which helps develop my learning

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Water board

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working outside and hands on

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I do both the analyst and technician role which allows variety in my role that I enjoy

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Water Recycling

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Colleagues and support. Ownership of issues

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Water

What are the best and worst things about your job?

hours
support from colleagues and managers

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working hours, varied work, work with a small team

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Capital & Commercial Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Regularly able to go out to sites which makes the working environment diverse.
If you demonstrate you're good at what you do, you will be given responsibility which helps you progress quickly and further demonstrate your ability.
People are so friendly and willing to help.
I get to see some great infrastructure and engineering - particularly Victorian assets.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Building Structures

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I meet people from all over the world due to Mott MacDonald having offices all over. This has given me a great opportunity to network. I also get to see real life projects being built around me and have the privilege of saying i have contributed to that. I also like that every single day of your life you will come into contact with something a civil engineer has designed.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Water

What are the best and worst things about your job?

-Collaborative work but good amount of independence
- Really strong support in work and in projects
- Always have work to do so I never feel left out or abandoned
-What I do has lot of parts to it so I am always learning and not doing the same thing over and over again

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I love being able to work In an outside environment

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: E and I

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Railways

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I like that my workload is varied and that I get to work on some of the most high profile railway engineering projects across the globe. I have been able to progress into managing my own project and growing into a role where I can be more client facing.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Capital Commercial

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My team and the wider commercial team, all welcoming and supportive people who offer value advice and experience.

The experience you gain this early on in your career is priceless and sets you up incredibly well within the industry.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Innovation | Transformation

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Get to work on large scale projects for premium clients, whilst getting a degree that I don't have to pay for.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Waste water recycling

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Variety of work which means the day to day doesn't get boring and means you're always learning

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Videography (Communications)

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The flexibility within my role is great. There is a good mix of working from home and in the office with colleagues and no two weeks will ever be the same as there are always different projects to work on.

Industry: Law Department: Residential

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The support I receive from other members of the team.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Field engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being able to work with a other teams or colleagues willing to help and give advice.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Operational

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The People that you work with are very supportive and want you to do well

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: SD&CA

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Creating solutions for various parts of the business.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Asset Intelligence

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The treatment of employees and the work-life balance within the job. I also enjoy the sense of teamwork as well as trust when given projects.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Asset Intelligence

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Work/Life balance and range of work

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Asset Intelligence

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great colleagues and management, opportunity for progression, interesting and varied workload, you are valued as employee, work-life balance is encouraged.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

a split between manual work and technical work

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Operate and Maintain

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Maintenance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good qualifications

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Engineer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learn new things everyday

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Procurement

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being able to gain insight into all different areas of the business and the responsibility to get properly involved with things.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Variety

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: PC&S

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best part comes when there is a job to do or something to fix and we can actually fix it and get the job done. That's always very satisfying.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: E&I

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Continued learning

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Very hands on and there is so much support within the company

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Asset intelligence

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The ability to do work that positively impacts others in the business

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: HR

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Repair

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The work is really enjoyable and the people are great - I love working outdoors too

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Emergency

Industry: Law Department: Medical negligence

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good team to work in and I have a lot of responsibility running my own cases. The company is very helpful and checks on my wellbeing.

Industry: Law Department: Court of Protection

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is rewarding to help your clients with their day-to-day lives.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I enjoy working with my colleagues as well as learning from them on the job. There are also plenty of opportunities to use new software and do challenging and interesting work.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: PC+S

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- Being able to work with experienced engineers to ensure gas continues to flow safely.

- Advancing previous skills with new knowledge

- Enjoying solving problems and working with my hands to fix broken components.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: HR - Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The flexibility and independence to achieve the best that I can. I am often given the responsibility to complete tasks, which in turn helps me develop my skills.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Visitor Experience Team- Customer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Unpredictability - expect the unexpected
Diversity of role
Opportunities for training and development

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: TIDE Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team I work with are great, and I enjoy collaborating with them on projects. I have a lot of freedom in my role to connect with them and explore the different work they do. There is always time for me and I feel like a valued part of the team. I also get great support from my line manager and have built some beautiful working relationships with other apprentices across the company.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Networks

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Vary in jobs day to day.
Supportive management and team, never feel like you are alone.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

-Flexible
-Great Team
-Great Support Network

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: IS

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I really like the people and workplace atmosphere, I feel we have a collective drive to do better and improve. It's a great place to work with people who share that mindset and care about their employees.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Commissioning

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- The challenges of figuring out solutions.
- Seeing different places and processes all the time.
- Never a boring moment.
- Great management team.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: HR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Love training people. Team is extremely supportive and welcoming.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Having a sense of responsibility
Getting a degree and valuable on the job experience
The people I work with
Recognition as an apprentice (awards, ambassadors etc)

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Infra networks waste

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Company values / ethics

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There are great opportunities for networking and teamwork throughout the company, and there are always chances to develop your skills.

Industry: Retail Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

High salary good work hours and good people to work with

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Transport Modelling

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Gaining valuable experience
Learning new skills

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Water treatment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The variety of work and the people I meet. I am always learning new things on site each day.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Site

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning the trade

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklayer

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: CDC

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Meeting new people and feeling accomplished when I get a task done.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

When you're out on the job there is a lot of freedom when doing your work, as long as you are working hard and doing what is asked of you and not causing any issues then you are basically left to your own devices.

I also like how the job is mainly outdoors and hands on the only time you're not outside working is when you are driving between jobs or when in the van and uploading a job.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the best things about my job are being my own boss planning my own work kind of having that freedom which is different to most jobs.

team work having a good bond with colleges this is good to have as this helps with work production

having a lot of support around you if its needed

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: CTS

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Interesting work, good work life balance

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Apprentice bricklayer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Building houses
Learning new things everyday

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being taught different skills in bricklaying

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working in the outdoors
Supportive team and colleagues
Problem solving
Using your own intuition

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

A sense of accomplishment when in charge of other apprentices and jobs get complete to a good standard.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Brickwork

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The investment benefits and opportunities.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Physical work outside.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklayer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learn the trade you love and see yourself progress and best management and great company.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpenter

What are the best and worst things about your job?

When you complete something new sense of accomplishment

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Bio-resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day is different whilst enjoying the journeys to different sites. Being a part of a good team and having a very good manager.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Leakage

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about my job are the variety of different things you get to do on a day to day basis so keeps you interested and on your toes.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning new skills on the job, and being able to see your work being put to good use.

Industry: Law Department: Court of Protection

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about my job is that it is rewarding, seeing and helping clients and getting the best outcome for them is amazing.

Industry: Law Department: Personal injury

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the type of work, working with different clients and colleagues

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: NA

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Apprentice

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: NA

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Apprentice

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: N/A

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Jobs are always different as well as the locations

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction Regions

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Flexibility with my learning and fun to see new things on site

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: HR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Given responsibility, working in teams, flexibility to manage own day

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction West

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I enjoy coming to work and being able to manage my own days. I have a responsibility to prioritise my own work and I'm not micro managed.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Retail

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My colleagues, variety in the work, getting on site

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: Carer

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Carer

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The training is the main thing that is the best of this work, very helpful at gaining hand skills and general knowledge of site work

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Consumer & Brand

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Events and opportunities available

Industry: Consulting Department: Consumer and Brand

What are the best and worst things about your job?

friendly staff, lots of opportunity for progression, work culture.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Accounting

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I really like the atomosphere in the office and really enjoy the teamwork with my colleagues which are very supportive.
I also like the support of my instructors.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Market Data (MFR-ED)

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I like the flexible working hours and and the amount of variety.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: AC & BP Nuclear Power

What are the best and worst things about your job?

-getting to help people a lot

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: MFH-E

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The creative, international and inspirational Environment.

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: na

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Flexible

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: Health and Social Care

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: T3

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: emergancy breakdown

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Burgess hill

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The work is mot always the same it is different and enjoyable.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Building

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Can be rewarding when problem solving or reaching a solution.

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Carpenter

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Just doing the carpentry I really enjoy

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Always problems to be solved

Variety of jobs

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Vynne park

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Oil and Gas Managed Accounts

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Rail

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day is different

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It’s enjoyable and have good people around you

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

They pay and the ability to learn a trade

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Site

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The amount of work there is on a day to day basis. The varied work.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everyday is different.
The hustle and bustle of working at an Airport.
The equipment you work on is very niche, so training on equipment you wouldn't really work on outside is good.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Emergency Breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

N/A

Industry: Consulting Department: recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the people i work with

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: Care

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The flexibility of what you can do on a day to day basis

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: Domiciliary and Complex Care

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the clients and teh office staff

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: na

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Sent to excellent environments

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Building

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I work for a company that respects me as an apprentice and has taught me many valuable skills over the years. I work with some very friendly people who are great at working as a team and bringing the best out of others.

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: na

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Excellent management support

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: N/A

What are the best and worst things about your job?

fantastic working conditions, flexible working hours, continuous support from management.

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: N/A

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: Community

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Satisfaction of making a clients a good start to the day
And sometimes going that extra mile

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Outside
Exercise
Enjoyable
Strength building
Team work

Industry: Medical and Social Care Department: Carer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Making clients happy
Rewarding

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great variety in the work I do (day and night shifts), very enjoyable and lovely people that I can get along with really easily.

Industry: Property & House Building Department: House building

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The location is very accessible.
They try to get you involved as much as they can.
Discounts everywhere

Industry: Property & House Building Department: North thames

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Going to build peoples homes

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning carpentry, being on the job and earning with working.

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Site

What are the best and worst things about your job?

So much variety, no 2 days are the same. Learn from lots of different people.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It’s a job that I enjoy throughly, I never have days where I can’t be bothered with it but it’s also a job of reward knowing you’re part a product for people to live in for many years

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Training and apprenticeships engineering

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Human Resources

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing hands down is the experience and skills I've learned since being here. I think almost everyday I learn something new or am asked to do something that is different and exciting. No day is rarely the same and I am thankful for that because it keeps me interested. I've improved my Microsoft office skills and learned to use new systems, some specific to HR. To me these are transferable skills that will help me in my career no matter where I work.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people and the networking, you learn something every day.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Reed Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Getting out and about meeting new clients - being in charge of my own time.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Education

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people I work with directly. They are really friendly and approachable, they are really happy to help.
Also the company has a positive ethos, they train their staff and reward hard work.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: RSR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Best things are when everything goes smoothly and you make lots of commission. It is also great to work within a friendly community of people who are always looking to improve and progress. Management is both helpful and constructive and most definitely not micromanaging which is really nice.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing about my position is the freedom to manage my own work. Knowing the more I do, the more I will obtain. You get to speak with everyone and anyone

Industry: Charity, Education & Public Sector Department: Reed Further Education South

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Competition time during business development both in your own branch and nation wide.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Speaking to lots of different people every day and no 2 days are the same.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working in a great team who are willing to help and support each other to make sure we all succeed

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accountancy & Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Communicating with varieties of people
Placing people in there dream jobs

Industry: Consulting Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My team are fantastic as are the wider team in Reed. I enjoy the communication with multiple different people and the fact that there is a variation of tasks to do everyday.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Specialist Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is so rewarding when you secure someone the role they have always wanted, it changes peoples lives and when they are really grateful for your help it is such a good feeling

Industry: Consulting Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The feeling of finding a candidate their job that they have been hunting for and struggling to find and to also visit them down the line to find out they are doing well in the company with all the clients happy with the candidates performance

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Compliance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Trusted to do the job

Industry: Consulting Department: Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

exposure to different markets, learning sales

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Business Support Call and Contact

Industry: Consulting Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Liasising with clients and candidates

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Recruitment

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Career progression, work culture, ability to make money

Industry: Consulting Department: Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It's very rewarding. Finding someone a new job when they might be desperately unhappy is such a lovely feeling.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Accountancy

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: RTS

Industry: Charity, Education & Public Sector Department: emergency breakdown

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Employees within the business are kind hearted.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Get along with everyone

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Best is when you're doing a hard and challenging job and when you finish it and it looks good, you just get such a big thrill from it

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people I work with and the tasks I have to do.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Construction

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working outside in all weathers.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklayer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Amazing people, always outside, great bosses, brilliant opportunities, very well looked after, perfect location, benefits, pay.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Exeter

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Doing work that you can see looks good and is going to be there for as long as the houses stay there.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Best is when you're doing a hard and challenging job and when you finish it and it looks good, you just get such a big thrill off it.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Training

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Each day is different and the people you work with make the days fun and interesting.

Industry: - Select Industry - Department: Other

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Building walls with little input from others - creating something with your hands.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Temps Recruiter

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Rewarding on good days, good bonuses, accesible office in Wolverhampton.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learn something new each day. Working with new people.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business support

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Reed Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Speaking with new people
Money

Industry: Consulting Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The ability to make a lot of money

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The creativity it offers. The working environment is also really positive. My team have been very supportive, offering guidance where needed, but always making sure I find the answers to problems myself.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: RSR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The commission structure at Reed is excellent. The more work you put in, the more rewards you reap. There are always plenty of opportunities to enter competitions and work towards extra incentives.

There's also really clear career progression. After expressing an interest in heading into management I have been given so many opportunities to develop my leadership skills.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

good management and office environment

Industry: Consulting Department: Business support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The nature of it, the fact that on a temporaries desk it is so fast paced and for that reason you will always have money on the board

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

People I work with. The atmosphere in the office is good because of the people here. Everyone is eager to support one another.

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: Software Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Support and help received, company benefits, self development time, annual leave, events and decent wages.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Building relationships with people, both candidates and clients. The feeling you get when you've placed a great candidate into their dream role.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Temps

What are the best and worst things about your job?

the working environment is excellent

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Financial Services

Industry: Support Services Department: Edinburgh Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Benefits, the skills learnt, training you get on the job, the job itself, the communication involved and the responsibility for your own work.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The working environment and being able to communicate with people on all levels. It is also good that you get out what you put in. if you work really hard you will see the rewards.

Industry: Science and R&D Department: Oxford Scientific

Industry: Support Services Department: Hertfordshire Procurement and Supply Chain

What are the best and worst things about your job?

making a placement

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working environment. Training. Colleagues.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Permanent Development

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: REED RSR

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Apprentice bricklayer

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I haven’t thought to myself once that this is boring, and that I am really enjoying it better everyday.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: N/A

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The excellent support within the engineering sector

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Rail

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The teams.
Shift work (means more full days off).
Experience.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Apprenticeship / first year training

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The learning experience is just amazing. Within the first 6 months I've learnt how to solder, weld and wire an electrical system by hand. One of the things I've wanted to learn as well was CAD and how to use Solid Works so I can use it for my own reasons as well.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Apprentice

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Bricklaying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I get to enjoy myself with my colleagues while doing what I want to do

Industry: Construction Department: Apprentice

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Learning all of the time

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The variety of work
Speaking to different people across the industry
Feeling of accomplishment when closing a deal

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Marketing & Creative

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good company, good people, good benefits, not that hard to get into and get momentum going

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Building a client relationship from cold and being able to retain business with them in the future.

Industry: Consulting Department: Sales

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Work life balance, career progression, training opportunities, brand,

Industry: Support Services (including Recruitment) Department: Apprenticeships

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being able to talk to a lot of people.
Learning new roles and finding out more about the business.
Being given extra responsibilities.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Each day is different.
Speaking to new people every day.
Advising clients and candidates using your industry knowledge.
Making placements.

Industry: Consulting Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Interacting with different people on a day to day basis, no day is the same as the last which means you feel consistently productive and have something new to learn everyday.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Education

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Team, environment, candidates

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Benefits
Social aspects
Colleagues
Training
Support

Industry: Consulting Department: Procurement and Supply Chain

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Career progression opportunities
Training
Colleagues

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There is potenial to earn a lot of commission but be prepared to put the work in.

Helping people find work which is the main reason I wanted to get into recruitment, huge job satifaction.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Dealing with people
Helping people and being a part of their journey
Colleagues and vibrant work environment
Training program

Industry: Support Services (including Recruitment) Department: HR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- Helping people and speaking to different people every day
- Commission
- Very rewarding role

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is very rewarding and there are a lot of progression opportunities

Industry: Consulting Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I learn new things everyday.

Industry: Support Services Department: Reed Specialist Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people pleasing. Knowing that you have landed the candidate who has been redundant, fresh out of uni etc their dream job is amazing, and on the flip side when you have found your client the perfect fit for their team.

Industry: -Support Services Department: Health and Care

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Opportunities to earn a lot of money.
Great working environment
Great team

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Learning & Development

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day is different!

Industry: Consulting Department: Accountancy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Helping others find work.
The buzz of a temporaries desk.

Industry: Charity, Education & Public Sector Department: Education Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The culture in the office and the enjoyment of placing people and making money

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The office environment
The job itself is interesting
Incentives to do well and perform
Excellent management

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Human Resources Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Flexibility to manage my day how I see fit. The freedom to manage my time how I need to, and the variety of my days and weeks in terms of client meetings, candidate meetings and general desk work

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Cardiff Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great work colleagues and team environment - plenty of incentives if you do well and good training schemes.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Pensions

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Site

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There are loads of things I love about my job but I think the best thing about my job Is all the people I work with and how I am treated. Everyone who works for this company is professional and experienced but they are also amazing friendly people who are willing to help explain or teach me something I don’t already know and they treat me as an equal in all aspects even if I am an apprentice I am still treated the same as anyone else and given the same opportunities.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great company and benefits, fantastic teams to work with and opportunities for further learning and building relationships with teams up and down the UK. Opportunities to progress if you are willing to put in the work and the role has great job satisfaction knowing you are helping people to get into jobs and gain more experience.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Networks

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Enjoyable out doors and varied

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: HR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Varied role, there is always something new to learn.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Reed Specialist Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Nice office enviornment
Good training scheme

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Recruitment consultant

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Manager, colleagues, great candidates and clients, bonuses, prizes to be won.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Procurement

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working roles and providing candidates with a fantastic opportunity and providing a business with a perfect candidate who can really add value to the business.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Accountancy & Finance

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Recognition of successes via promotions.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best part of my job is that I am constantly motivated to do well with uncapped commission, targets and bonuses to hit, bonuses upon completing apprenticeship modules, constant competitions.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accounting and Finance

Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The level of progression and chance to make money.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Recruitment

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being able to successfully place somebody into a new role.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing is the motivation the company gives you via bonus incentives and rewards.

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Housing & Technical

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Liaising with clients and candidates, building relationships. Searching for strong CV's that match the roles you are recruiting for. I have a strong relationship with my team as well which always helps.

Industry: Consulting Department: Further Education

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is never boring and there is always work to do.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Business Support

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Rewards- company benefits, commission, recognition.

Industry: IT Support & Telecoms Department: Reed Technology

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It's very rewarding
Great team of people to work with
Highly challenging

Industry: Consulting Department: Education

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Location
Training
Team
Management
Job progression

Industry: Consulting Department: Marketing & Creative

What are the best and worst things about your job?

You get put through an apprenticeship scheme so will have a qualification! Really good training programme, very good support too.

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: IT Development

Industry: Retail Department: Menswear

What are the best and worst things about your job?

You are supported with your daily role and also pushed to progress and develop yourself.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Management

What are the best and worst things about your job?

I have a great team to work with who offer great support.

Industry: Retail Department: Buying and Merchandising

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Every day is different, they offer a lot of support and there is a lot of career progression available.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Corporation Tax

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Everything - I honestly have not found anything that I don't enjoy yet - it's difficult and there is a lot to learn but learning takes time. One of the main things I would say that makes it enjoyable is the colleagues I have around me - always willing to help and support me where needed.

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Building

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It is challenging in a good way, and I like solving problems.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Audit

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accounts

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best things about my job are the people I work with and the hours of work. I had previously worked in the hospitality industry, which involved working evenings, weekends and bank holidays and as a result, there was not much of a work-life balance.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Collection

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Able to be out and about every day. Each job is different so always mentally active, with problem-solving. Also with the apprenticeship it is really enjoyable going away for training.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Services

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It’s interactive and hands-on

Industry: Retail Department: Operations

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Is the support and training I get from other sites.

Industry: Energy and Utilities Department: Water quality

What are the best and worst things about your job?

There are a lot of great things, I don't think I could just pinpoint a few. The people I work alongside as well as the customers.

Industry: Support Services (Including Recruitment) Department: Talent Solutions

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Audit and Accounts

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Lots of experience and training.

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accountancy

Industry: Accountancy & Insurance Department: Accounts

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The working environment and supportive colleagues.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Building

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- I love doing monthly valuations on the amount of work carried out on-site, followed by processing payments to reflect the work carried out.

- I love negotiating final accounts as it is a challenge that can bring great finical rewards & reputation.

Industry: Consumer Goods and FMCG Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

You get a lot of freedom over what you do as long as your work is up to standard. There is a big sense of team motivation and everyone will always be willing to help you out. The environment is always changing so the job is never the same. There is a lot of reactive work to keep you on your toes.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Technical

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team.

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Energy

What are the best and worst things about your job?

People I work with and the support they are willing to give for me to develop.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Technical

What are the best and worst things about your job?

- Every day is different
- There is so much to learn
- I am challenged

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Engineering

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team is very helpful and the work I get to do is very varied which is brilliant.

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: C&IR

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team I'm in make sure I have things to do and will always help if I'm stuck. They also help to challenge me.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Secondary Market Oversight

What are the best and worst things about your job?

My team are very focused on collaborative working, you gain so much from learning from others.

There are no stupid questions and everyone is willing to help. I am involved in the analysis of complex topics and learn new things every day.

Ultimately though, the best thing is that the work we do at the FCA ultimately is to benefit the general public and ensure that they are treated fairly.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

You're working outside and its is challenging.

Industry: Science and R&D Department: Events

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The ability to get involved in so many different opportunities that I don't have any experience in.

Industry: Science and R&D Department: PDB

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The team
The resources available to me - software / technology / stationary - everything provided
The understanding and flexibility of the working model (especially reflected in the current pandemic scenario!)
The internal opportunities

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Strategy and Competition

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The people, location, working facilities, opportunities, challenging work, exposure.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

A great work vibe with great support from all aspects of the business. Very generous pay and benefits also. Lastly I can see spending all my future with Taylor Wimpey.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Supervision

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Friendly staff where I work
Training
Make a difference for consumers through the work

Industry: Science and R&D Department: Administration

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Working in a team of supportive colleagues who look out for each other.
Getting to contribute towards helping people and working for a company that cares about the health of others.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Marketing

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The best thing is the responsibility I am given, and the autonomy I have. I also have a great team who foster a supportive learning environment.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: East anglia

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Taking on new challenges and things I have never done before.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The working hours, wage and opportunities.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Money
Work is good
Always have a laugh

Industry: Engineering and Manufacturing Department: Logistics

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Gaining a free qualification and learn more new things

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: South midlands

What are the best and worst things about your job?

It's fun to do and people are nice.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: South Midlands

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Good people
Decent pay

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: West Midlands

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Nice environment.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Quantity Surveying

What are the best and worst things about your job?

The variation in work each day. Learning from experienced people while actually working. Being part of a team.

Industry: Property & House Building Department: Production

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Meeting new people and being part of constructing something so personal for someone.

Industry: IT Development & Consulting Department: SAP

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Being able to work from home on Fridays.
Culture.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: construction

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Getting to work as part of a team and getting to work outdoors
Learning a skill for life
Challenging myself

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: Carpentry

What are the best and worst things about your job?

This is a profession that I have always wanted to work within. Every day is different. I enjoy working as part of a team and continually learning new skills from different colleagues. The team on site are very supportive and it is nice to combine what I have learnt in college with the practical application on-site. I have had the opportunity to work with both first fix and second fix carpenters.

Industry: Construction and Civil Engineering Department: East Scotland

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Great learning opportunities.

Industry: Law Department: Court of Protection

What are the best and worst things about your job?

Varied, interesting work, something different could happen every day when supporting clients under the Court of Protection.

Industry: Banking and Finance Department: Supervision- Retail L