Graduate Trainee, Digital Power at Schneider Electric

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Schneider Electric scores 4.1/5 based on 117 reviews.

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What are the Best and Worst things about your job?

Best

I've not met a person who won't give you time.
Encourages internal job movement
Lots of training opportunities
You to experience 2+ roles to discover what you want to do permanently

Worst

Most offices with jobs I want are located in less populated areas of the country with little attraction to young people.
The graduate scheme is constantly changing and never settled. I think the teams planning is poor. I love the company but think the grad scheme is poorly planned.

What is the annual salary for this role?

Starting salary: £25,000 - £27,000

Current salary: £33,000 - £35,000

What hours do you actually work, on average?

Start: 08:30

Finish: 04:30

What advice would you give to someone applying to this role?

Cover Letter specific to the job. Use key works from the job advert.
Also use key words throughout your CV. I always made the key points, numbers and statements in my CV and CL in bold.
CV probably 1-2 pages depending upon experience.
I like having something in the personal statement paragraph in the CV to show a bit of character, 90% of people have a dull personal statement paragraph. Be different.

Do you have any interview tips?

Be yourself, and embrace it. If they don't want you for being you then it's not going to work.
Do the basic revision on the company. You don't need to know the entire company history but understand company ethos and values, key markets and maybe a couple interesting projects.

Questions asked: you get asked the same questions for most jobs. Why this job? What skills do you have? Any weaknesses? Tell us about a time you solved a problem for a customer?

As part of the graduate scheme process we had to do an assessment centre (online) where you had to do a presentation on a given topic to 1 HR member and a general SE employee, then was interviewed by another HR and general SE member, final section was a virtual escape room with other interviewee to work together.

On the group task, be nice, be involved, ask questions, work together. You can do a great interview and presentation but if you cant work together you won't get picked.