Showcase Magazine Spring 2024 - Flipbook - Page 10
MEET THE
TEAM
MEET THE
TEAM
FEATURING ELLEN
I’m Ellen and I am the Director of Operations for Showcase Training, and the Designated
Safeguarding Officer. My own apprenticeship journey has ended up being my whole career. I
left school after completing A levels not knowing at all what I wanted to do – I deferred my
place at university to keep that opportunity open whilst I explored other options. I’m a great
believer that we will always end up exactly where we are supposed to be in life and to trust the
decisions you make – but that’s always easier said than done when you can look back and see
the positives that have come from your past choices. When we decide to take a certain
pathway in life, it is a leap of faith. We may not land where we thought we would, or indeed
when we thought we would, but the important first step is always to just make that choice.
I began at 18 as a Level 2 Business Admin apprentice working in a small training provider with
some of the amazing colleagues we actually have working at Showcase now. I worked through
my level 3 Business Admin, level 4 Leadership and Management, and level 5 Management
apprenticeship programmes, finishing on a high in 2021 graduating from my Level 6 Degree
Apprenticeship with a BA in Leadership and Management. Was it hard work? Oh yeah. Did I
make personal sacrifices to study? Of course – I wanted to learn and to make this pathway a
success. But was it worthwhile? ABSOLUTELY.
That is the beauty of apprenticeships for me – you get a foot in the door and there is no end of
where you can end up. When you choose to study you choose to invest in yourself and your
future, whatever it may look like. You may end up taking a different direction at some point; but
the skills and knowledge you gain in an apprenticeship, I believe, are unparalleled and skills
and knowledge applied for life.
You get out of life what you put into it, and for all of those currently on apprenticeship
programmes please use this article as a reminder to be proud: you are now on your way to
becoming who you are truly meant to be with the help an amazing apprenticeship.
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