National Apprenticeship Week: Eve Gregory at Gateley Leeds and BPP

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For National Apprenticeship Week, Leeds-based Legal Apprentice Eve Gregory shares her career journey and discusses the importance of researching all higher education options.

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00:00 I think the highlights for me were definitely the level of responsibility given. I kind

00:07 of went into the apprenticeship thinking that it was going to be admin based, I was going

00:11 to be making lots of teas and coffees and it wasn't that whatsoever. I literally was

00:16 trusted to look after my own clients, manage my own caseload, probably within the first

00:21 year and a half, so I think at that point I was only 20. So it's a lot of responsibility

00:26 and trust and I don't think I was expecting that when I first started.

00:30 After leaving school with three GCSEs, Eve Gregory began a travel and tourism course

00:35 at college where she re-sat her GCSEs and went on to secure a place at university. But

00:41 the course and learning style were not for her, and unsure what to do next, a chance

00:45 encounter altered her career path.

00:48 I kind of went back home, started working back at my local pub with the hope to go travelling,

00:54 but during that time of saving I then got called to do jury service at Bradford Crown

00:58 Court. Went and did jury service and absolutely loved it. I literally fell in love with it

01:05 and then got talking to one of the clerks and she kind of told me about the apprenticeship

01:09 scheme and that her niece had applied and I'd never heard of it at this point so I went

01:14 on the train and kind of researched all the apprenticeships that I could do and found

01:18 the Gately Legal one which thankfully I secured an interview for and got the role for, so

01:23 not looked back since.

01:25 As a fifth year legal apprentice with apprenticeship provider BPP, Eve is keen to share her journey

01:31 with Gately Legal in Leeds City Centre this National Apprenticeship Week.

01:35 At BPP students will have one day dedicated to university, so this might be hours of preparation

01:44 ready for your lecture which is normally two hours, depending on what term you could have

01:48 two lectures in one day, so it's a lot of preparation but BPP do really well at providing

01:54 the materials for you to succeed in those lectures. Some people do in comparing it to

01:59 university think it lacks the social aspect of what you get at university and I think

02:04 speaking from my experience of going to university for the year and then starting an apprenticeship,

02:09 I think I have more social opportunities and there's more social side during the apprenticeship.

02:15 Having been down the college, uni and apprenticeship route, Eve is looking forward to a future

02:20 in law and is aiming to inspire the next generation of apprentices.

02:25 I think it's just kind of being open to the alternative routes, I think even now university

02:30 is still kind of what you'd think to do for higher education or what is considered the

02:34 next step and I think it's just being open to all the different paths. By the time I'm

02:39 qualified it'll have been seven years, so it's nice to be able to say that next year

02:43 I'll be done and a qualified solicitor through the apprenticeship programme. So for now it's

02:48 just getting to that point, I'm looking forward to starting my career with Gateliers and kind

02:53 of staying, having kind of something to do with the apprenticeship scheme, whether that

02:57 be mentoring, managing, just having some kind of say in how the apprenticeship pans out

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