August Apprentice of the Month - Aimee Rayment
We are happy to announce that the winner of the LDN Apprentice of the Month is Aimee @ Warner Bros!
Nominated by LDN Business Administration Skills Coach, Steve Bond - this was the last chance for Aimee to win the award before her apprenticeship comes to and end!
We received some awesome feedback from Aimee's line manager and Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor at Warner Bros, Sarah Perry, which you can read below!
Aimee’s Skills Coach:
All I would say that if I had a caseload of learners like Aimee, my life would be so much easier! She has always been determined, committed, dedicated throughout the whole Apprenticeship. She has always taken on feedback positively, using it to improve her performance and strive to be better in whatever capacity needed. And she finished early in the month, with no drama at all - not always the case. I haven't nominated a learner twice for a long time if ever, I think that highly of Aimee.
Aimee was an excellent Class Rep - she was always the one at the forefront of any new initiatives she was asked to support for LDN and was a shining example for those Apprentices around her - she always led from the front during last year's Workshops, as well as this year's Third Thursday Tutorials during debates and when contributions were required. Aimee was always highly supportive, constantly positive and gave her time up for her peers whenever necessary.
Aimee’s Line Manager
Aimee is great. She’s connected with everyone in the UK HR and broader HR team. She’s built strong relationships with fellow interns and apprentices that help access information when we need it or resolving issues behind the scenes.
She is always optimistic and never bogged down by negative comments from people or challenges we face. Any task she’s given she accepts very happily and sees the positives and things she can learn through its completion, whether it is contract preparation, diary management, doing lots of phone calls or emails, organising events or supporting other teams. Always does it with a smile on her face!
Receiving feedback in a professional environment has been new and initially tough for her, not because she wouldn’t accept it. On the contrary, because she has had to learn how to digest and implement the feedback and seeing it as a development opportunity as opposed to criticism. She’s gone a long way and learned to build on that feedback to do a better job each day.
Aimee gets on with things she’s given and also identifies areas where she could proactively support, like when she spots potential issues and the need to tweak standard documents, when meetings overlap or commitments I intend to make are incompatible with others I’ve made previously.
Aimee has managed to reconfigure adobe sign in a way that allows me to e-sign different parts of the same document at different times in the same workflow. She’s also managed to find a way to share templates with the HR Coordinator and save a lot of time in re-building all those templates on the HR Coordinators profile.
Aimee has recently taken upon herself to invent various ways to ensure the apprentices at WB feel like they’re part of a community (especially as we had some new joiners right before lockdown). She has been arranging “coffee roulette” sessions (where she groups apprentices up randomly for a 15 minute coffee-break style call as a way of connecting and meeting others), she’s also been arranging a monthly games night for our network of interns and apprentices.
Our runner up for this month is Aswin Shanmugam at Tempest Resourcing, who was nominated by our other Business Administration Coach, Mati! With feedback provided by Aswin’s line manager, Cieran Connelly.
Aswin’s Skills Coach:
Aswin has developed him communication skills and has shown this not just in his coursework & at work but when asked to contribute when we had our matrix assessment, Aswin showed his willingness to take part. He has a great attitude towards learning and I have consistently seen him strive to do his best at work and in his apprenticeship work.
Aswin’s line manager:
Aswin has always had a positive attitude from day one , and within the last month especially he has only taken this to the next level. Aswin embraces any change that happens within the teams and is always echoing a positive message that more can be done. He is always early to meetings and will ensure tasks are done to a high degree before moving on to the next thing. All the consultants and senior members here trust Aswin and trust him in more pressing matters knowing he is able to get the task done efficiently and professionally.
Recently our team was short staffed due to annual leave which left Aswin with the added responsibility of covering for two senior members, not only did he spend time learning the other accounts of his colleagues on his own time while also doing his work, but he did this with such a can do attitude that he managed to ensure nothing was missed and when the rest of the team returned they could not speak more highly of the way Aswin had approached this.