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Apprenticeship LIVE Travis Perkins
Travis Perkins Apprenticeships
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This broadcast focuses on Chris’ journey as apprentices and why he chose an apprenticeship instead of continuing in full time education. The theme for this broadcast was focused on the apprentice experience to inspire students in school and college to look at this route into the workplace.
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About Travis Perkins
There’s a lot more to us than bricks and mortar.
Our businesses span the trade, home improvement and DIY markets and our aim is to offer the best for our employees, customers, suppliers and the communities around us which helps bring our strategy to life.
With 20+ businesses in the Group we’ve grown to approximately 28,000 colleagues across more than 2,000 branches, stores and sites around the UK but keep the local communities in which we serve at the heart of what we do.
Just take a look around your house or surroundings and you will see that everything we do is around you. We have ‘new fashioned’ values which are core to our being. For us, it’s a way of working and treating people that makes us who we are.
The Group includes some of the leading brands in the industry including; Travis Perkins, Wickes, Keyline, City Plumbing Supplies, CCF, Benchmarx, Tile Giant, Toolstation, City Heating Spares, BSS, DHS – Direct Heating Spares, F & P Wholesale, The Underfloor Heating Store, Birchwood Price Tools, PTS, Installation Giant, SBS, Solfex, Connections, Primaflow and Rudridge – and has over 2,000 outlets nationwide.
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Chris Tivey
Assistant Branch Manager, Travis Perkins
I firstly enrolled as an apprentice on the serving our customers apprenticeship in 2017 alongside my role as a sales advisor, from this i picked up many skills not only from the apprenticeship workshops but also from day to day work in the branch.
Coming from a retail background with a sports coaching degree there wasn’t much opportunity for jobs out there given the fact i had little experience despite having the qualifications. This apprenticeship was the perfect opportunity to not only learn new skills but develop them at the same time.
From this course i got promoted to Assistant branch manager at the branch in November 2017. This course was a vital part of my development and helped me make that next step to promotion.
In January 2019 i enrolled for the management apprenticeship programme which will develop me as a leader at my branch and hopefully take me on my next journey as a branch manager in the near future. I have also recently been given the role as Brick Champion for the North west Region, this will give me a huge responsibility for looking after stock and brick matching on a number of big housing projects across the Northwest.