Hi there, my name's Cormac and I am a broadcast engineering degree apprentice with the BBC, currently studying at Birmingham City University.
Our apprenticeship is based on block sort of learning. So we do 3 month blocks. One of them being at university, and then one at work, which is really really nice. Because you don't have to think about one when you're on the other.
We go from being in a classroom all the time here, to just out and about all the time when we're at work. So we're in offices all across the country. I'm always in Glasgow, London, Salford. Always darting around to do different experiences.
Lots of just this needs fixing, that needs fixing. here's a project that we want to deliver. Do you want to kind of take this and run with it?
My learning style is out in the field doing it and actually getting to experience it. There's so many skills you have to pick up over time, and some of them are really soft skills about communication, planning, organisation. And then there's the more kind of physical stuff with certain pieces of equipment or the way that we work within the broadcast industry.
I think if I had to pick a standout moment, it would be getting to do the election last year. That was fantastic. We were up in Glasgow for a week, and then all of us went off to our own locations. And we were actually, apart from the camera operator, the only engineer there.
We had to do everything from arranging access into the venue to working out where we were gonna be. Getting power, internet, everything. So that was really interesting because it just gave you a bit of a chance to kind of step out and go. I've done all of this in a team. I've done this with sort of other people looking after me. This is now my chance to show I can do it kind of on my own.
