Alyssa - Apprentice Electrician:
'I am a qualified beauty therapist. I did that in 2018. I decided it wasn't right for me.
My dad suggested to do an electrical apprenticeship and I was like, 'Okay,
yeah, let's do this.'
So I did a pre-app at Chisholm and I fell in love with it.
I'm Alyssa. I'm an apprentice electrician and I work for Frontline Human Resources under Maxims.
It's been a great opportunity to have both aspects of the group training organisation as well as the host employer. If there was anything wrong, I know I could call them.
I worked on a Big Build project throughout my apprenticeship, the Metro Tunnel. I worked on Arden Street, I worked at Eastern Portal, and at Domain Station.'
David Barron - General Manger, Frontline Human Resources:
'It's fantastic to see these large, big government projects out there integrating with apprentices.'
Dan Wong - Project Manager, Maxim Group:
'And it gives them a massive amount of experience where, like Alyssa, the opportunities that they're going to have is about to take off.'
Alyssa - Apprentice Electrician:
'The benefits on being a Big Build project is you can go to different sections. So you can be on the roughing crew, you can be on the fit-off crew. I learnt a lot. I learnt a lot of different ways to do things.'
David Barron - General Manger, Frontline Human Resources:
'And it's fantastic to see her then go through that process working on the tunnel, and I see how the Big Build Apprenticeship programme is changing lives.'
Dan Wong - Project Manager, Maxim Group:
'This is the kind of project that not many people have seen.'
Alyssa - Apprentice Electrician:
'Doing my apprenticeship this way actually helped me succeed. It's just made me a lot more confident as a person, as well as a electrician too.
I would recommend the Big Build Apprenticeship programme because it's just an amazing career opportunity.'
David Barron - General Manger, Frontline Human Resources:
'And it's just fantastic to see them thrive in that environment.'
Dan Wong - Project Manager, Maxim Group:
'The career potential of coming into the Big Builds is a very sought-after trade. The training's extremely good and you'll be forever within a job.'
Alyssa - Apprentice Electrician:
'Just go out and do it. Don't be shy. Just have fun. Enjoy it.'
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