Engineering organisation Babcock helps graduates take their first steps into the working world.
Worldwide engineering organisation Babcock, who specialises in defence, airports and rail operations, is helping graduates make the transition from studying engineering at university to applying those skills in the workplace, according to graduates with the company.
Jennifer McGinley joined Babcock's Mechanical Engineering programme after university. She says Babcock allows graduates time to adapt.
"There is such a wide range of skills you pick up at university and one of the biggest challenges is learning to apply those skills in the workplace," she says. "The graduate programme gave me a learning period to allow me to apply them to where I work."
Graduates joining the company are supported through their training by senior managers and mentors. Jennifer says the company's talent pipeline helps graduates apply their knowledge to the business.
"This mix of people allows you to share different ideas and thoughts that maybe you wouldn't have come across before," she says.
"The senior engineer in my team was a graduate before me and the principle engineer in my team was a graduate before him."
Another graduate, Richard Townsend, believes he adjusted to life in Babcock's Electrical and Electronic Engineering programmes more easily thanks to support offered by his mentor.
"I find my mentor to be excellent, he isn't directly involved in any of the work that I do but he is always on-hand to support, he's really easy to get hold of and very easy to talk to," he says.
"You can talk to your mentor about your chartership application, what you should be using as evidence, your continual professional development - it's all covered. It's not a formal relationship as you might expect."
Richard says although Babcock is a multinational organisation, graduates can still develop their own unique careers.
"[Babcock] gives graduates the opportunity to work for a large multinational company on a number of complex projects, but also [gives] the flexibility to shape your own experience, to mould your career as you want to, with full support from the company along the way."