Meet Cameron... Our Apprentice Accountant
We're supporting this week's National Apprenticeship Week (#NAW2018). At Magenta Living one of our current corporate objectives is ‘leading by example – ensuring our Board and staff have the appropriate skills to deliver our vision and values.’ Magenta Living has apprentices in order to ensure we are helping develop staff in their chosen roles and responsibilities as well as providing them with on the job training, particularly in manual roles such as bricklayers where there is currently a skill shortage. It is also important that we develop apprentices and invest in them as they will hopefully form part of our approach to succession planning.
The theme for this year is ‘Apprenticeships Work’ which aims to showcase how apprenticeships work for both the individual and the employer. The campaign is in its 11th year and to show more clearly our support for this campaign, we've spoken with some of our past and present apprentices to develop a series of short films which highlight their story of how apprenticeships have worked for them and their ambition for the future.
Follow our social media channels to keep up with our activity this week:
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Monday 2nd March 2018 - Video 1
Meet Cameron...
An Apprentice Accountant in our finance team who's just coming to the end of his three-year apprenticeship. Check out this video to learn how #ApprenticeshipsWork for him. #NAW2018
This is the first in a series of videos we'll be sharing this week, be sure to check back to see more videos from other roles.
“Apprenticeships are the perfect stepping stone for people to make the leap from full-time education into the working environment.”
Cameron has worked at Magenta Living for just over three years and has just completed his apprenticeship and is now qualified at level two, three and four of AAT, an accountancy qualification. Cameron thought learning and working at the same time was helpful as it meant he could put into practice what he was studying at college, which helped him to understand what he was learning.
Throughout his time at Magenta Living, Cameron says he has learned so much, not just about accounting but his communications skills have improved as well as his ability to meet deadlines and he feels he has become much more confident. Cameron would recommend anyone thinking of applying for an apprenticeship to go for it!