 I'm Harry Jezard. I'm Civil Engineering Technician Apprenticeship with West Sussex County Council. My role is within the structures and drainage team and I'm undertaking a level four apprenticeship in civil engineering. I wasn't completely set on going to university. I wanted to get the work experience whilst learning at the same time and the benefit of that is also get paid salary as well. I had an interest in highway engineering and this role was always in within highways. I think working for local authority is really great because the training is very good and I've learnt that the people are very nice as well and they're always very helpful with my development. So my typical week Monday is usually a day where I'm in the office of my team and we have a team meeting and we discuss things like health and safety, lessons learned, those sort of things and I'm generally doing a lot of CAD work as well so producing drawings for going out to contractors. Tuesday tends to be a day that I might be inspecting structures so that would be a full day and we go around the county and we find structures that need to be inspected every two years and we'll go and look at the defects and see what needs to be flagged up. Wednesday is a similar thing. Thursday was my study day however that might be changing but that was my study day so I go tostone university for a day and do a full day of lessons and on Friday would likely be another office day so that would be within my team and I can ask questions with issues I might have and likely doing more CAD work as well. I'd say the people, the people are really really lovely I really get on with everyone and the flexible working as well that's really really nice because you don't get that necessarily in the private sector so it's nice to have flexible working and there's a real variety of things that I do within my role some of it is site work, some of it's in the office so it's sort of 50-50 so I really like that as well. So I have a mentor. My mentor has actually done my apprenticeship so I can go to him and we can sort of discuss things that I might have like issues and things and things to resolve and he can give me tips and tricks on the apprenticeship as well. I have a line manager so I can go to my line manager for any sort of personal concerns or queries. I have a buddy as well so my buddy is within my team and we go actually out quite a lot on site and he helps me to develop my skills. I would definitely say interpersonal skills. I was quite a shy person at first but being an apprentice you have to meet so many new people on a daily basis on site as well so you really get to know how to talk to people and communicate with them and I feel like I'm a lot more confident person now when I meet new people and that's really great. I would definitely say go for it if you're somebody who's interested in highway engineering and it's got a good background in STEM subjects and you like problem solving and being challenged. There's definitely lots of things that I've had to figure out for myself which sometimes is good because you kind of learn things your way but then you can also learn things other people's way and that sort of helps as well.