00:00 Hi, I'm Alison Addy, I'm the Head of External Engagement and Policy at London Gatwick.
00:07 Well today is really exciting, this is our first ever campus wide apprenticeship event
00:18 at Gatwick. So for us this is a great opportunity to really inspire young people about a huge
00:25 range of opportunities at Gatwick and in aviation. What we've done this week, because it's National
00:31 Apprenticeships Week, is brought together lots of different employers from across the
00:35 campus and brought together students from local schools this morning and then we've
00:42 also got other adult visitors like Jobcentre Plus and other organisations coming this afternoon
00:47 as well as Employee Calling. So that we can really showcase those apprenticeship opportunities
00:53 in particular but this afternoon actually we'll be talking about other job opportunities
00:57 as well. Because for Gatwick it's really about that long term pipeline of talent for the
01:03 future and so we're doing everything we can to make sure that we're engaging with local
01:08 partners, with companies on airport but most importantly at the moment with local schools
01:14 because we want students to be making those decisions around subjects they want to study
01:21 but really raise their aspirations and see the wealth of opportunities available at the
01:26 airport.
01:27 If you just take today and the examples we've got today, we've got apprenticeships across
01:38 engineering, so London Gatwick has got a four year engineering apprenticeship that's been
01:45 running for 47 years now. It's very well established, working with the local college and so actually
01:53 we are launching this year's apprenticeship applications next week and that will be for
01:59 four new apprentices this year starting in August so look out for those adverts next
02:05 week because that is an amazing opportunity. We've got engineering apprentices here today
02:10 talking about their roles and they get to work in all sorts of different aspects of
02:14 engineering at the airport. They become a qualified technician and we've got loads of
02:19 examples of colleagues that are now in other roles, management roles and have really started
02:25 to build their careers with us.
02:27 Our UU is the first one to say it at this year's so definitely, that's what I'm going
02:32 to say, I love it.
02:33 We know that we've got a really important part to play in the local community and local
02:39 economy and so we work really hard to make sure we are playing our part in a positive
02:44 way. And even when you think about local employment, actually it's really important if you look
02:49 at the bigger picture of sustainability and making sure that we're reducing our impacts,
02:55 having local people that are able to access those local jobs by public transport and live
03:00 closer to work, those people then spending their wages in the local economy so it's all
03:06 part of that big picture of local success. Because what we want to happen is that as
03:12 the airport continues to thrive, people that live in the local community have access to
03:17 those great opportunities that come with having a great airport and a doorstep.
03:22 My name's Stuart and I'm a World Reforce Officer based here at London's Gatwick Airport.
03:31 Ross, what wrote quicker?
03:33 Well, probably the newer one.
03:35 You reckon?
03:37 Yeah, can you do one more?
03:38 Much faster.
03:40 And we've got three on the airport.
03:42 So today we're advertising Border Force to try and get people interested in joining us
03:46 when they reach age because obviously people who are here are young so we're trying to
03:51 get them to get ideas in their head that when they turn 18 there's a career here at Border
03:55 Force and at Gatwick Airport for them.
03:57 We've had quite a lot come up to us. Some are really interested, some are a bit distant
04:01 when they first come to us and then once they find out who we are and what we do they seem
04:05 to be quite keen. There's some for everybody at Border Force so whether people are into
04:10 investigating or they're into public facing or maybe more perhaps behind the scenes sort
04:14 of work, we seem to be able to find something that everybody's got an interest in.
04:19 And how much do you enjoy your role?
04:21 As you can tell I really like it. I've been in Border Force for two and a half years and
04:26 I wish I'd joined when I was a lot younger.
04:28 I'm Naomi, I'm the Passenger Services Manager at Skybreak at Gatwick. We are a passenger
04:34 facing desk at Gatwick representing, in partnership with Gatwick, helping passenger recovery.
04:40 What we're doing is doing a little bit of a networking event with the schools, colleges,
04:50 looking at people who are interested in hopefully travel with us and we can get them on board
04:56 for an apprenticeship if they're a school leaver or we can get them a kind of like an
04:59 internship if they're a college leaver.
05:01 And then you come back and this is where you're then considered a passenger.
05:08 I started off as an apprentice nine years ago, I'm now a manager. We have a few people
05:13 within the management that also were apprentices. We've got three people who have just finished
05:18 their apprenticeship and now they're fully qualified agents, they've got a full time
05:21 job, they were school and college leavers as well. So yeah, it's definitely a good company
05:26 to work for, especially in partnership with Gatwick as well.
05:29 Hi, I'm Abby, I'm a third year engineering apprentice here at Gatwick.
05:37 Hi, I'm Joe, I'm a fourth year engineering apprentice at Gatwick Airport.
05:40 I love the staff, because we didn't take off we need to get ourselves back on tour.
05:45 It's been really important for me, so I came straight out of GCC and did this rather than
05:49 going to college and it's taught me not only have I got my qualifications, but it's also
05:53 taught me all the hands on skills I need for industry. It's also helped me build my confidence
05:58 levels, communication, various other skills that I need to be in the right place, it's
06:02 been really important.
06:03 Yeah, more social skills I think, because I'm going around seeing everyone, meeting new
06:09 people and also they're all teaching me their skills as well, so getting skill based knowledge
06:14 and also social skills as well, so yeah it's been good.
06:17 They're really important things and I think they help young people so much, I think, so
06:27 important, getting you ready for industry, getting the qualifications you need, but also
06:30 life skills, I think it's a really good route to go down and I would encourage it to anyone
06:34 else.
06:35 Cody Ferreira, Oakland School.
06:40 Lewis Collier, Oakland School.
06:43 So we're here today to discuss and find out exactly what we should do with apprenticeships
06:49 and what they're about and the routes we could take and possible job offers we could get
06:55 once we complete them.
06:56 I'm looking at doing a level 3 electromechanical engineering at East Surrey, so it's definitely
07:08 something that ties in with Boeing and London Gatwick over there, so yeah that's my plans
07:13 and what I'm looking for.
07:14 Yeah I'm doing very similar to him at East Surrey but I'm thinking about doing one of
07:17 the apprenticeships there.
07:18 Yes, good morning, my name is Vanessa Shook, I work for Eastshire Engineering here at Gatwick
07:27 and I'm an ex-mechanic working in the engineering department.
07:33 The interaction has been really good, I think there's definitely been a lot of interest
07:37 in the engineering apprenticeship that we offer and just generally a really good interest
07:42 in aviation and STEM related, science related sort of jobs that are on offer here today
07:48 which is really good, it's really nice to see.
07:50 So we offer an Eastshire Engineering apprenticeship and this apprenticeship lasts two years approximately
08:02 and the first nine to ten months we are offering food and accommodation at our Luton Academy
08:10 where students will be based and will be doing their classroom training and examination for
08:15 the CAT A licence essentially and then during that time they're going to be doing all their
08:22 examinations beforehand and then afterwards they'll be doing their workshop training and
08:27 getting all the skills and hand skills needed to be an aircraft engineer essentially.
08:32 After that they'll be going to one of our bases and we have a really vast wide network
08:39 of different maintenance bases across England they'll be able to go to to continue their
08:44 apprenticeship and get the practical experience working on aircraft.
08:53 I think the apprenticeship is extremely important, on one hand it obviously encourages young
08:58 minds to go further and become the next generation of engineers for us which is great for us
09:05 because we've been getting loads and loads of new planes, we are massively increasing
09:09 our fleet across the board so we need the people to work on it and what better way to
09:13 do it than to train our own in-house future engineers.
09:19 I've done the apprenticeship myself so I can really vouch for it and really say it's
09:24 been a really good experience because you learn and then later on you don't only learn
09:29 in the classroom but you actually learn in a more practical sense and I think people
09:34 just learn better when they see things, learning while doing is the best way.
09:39 Because you've got the River Mall which is very close to the airport we have to make
09:48 sure that the water is drawn out of it.
09:50 Awesome.
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