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The Power of Abnormal: Cenk Edition

I have always believed in the saying: if you can’t dream it you can’t achieve it. For me, this isn’t just an idiom - it’s a powerful life practice that has defined the vision of my life. However, to understand my story, it’s important to fathom that my journey didn’t start with ambition - it started with survival. At a young age, I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I vividly remember the motorway incid

April 7 Read more

The unconventional route: why I ditched my first-choice UCAS offer for a legal apprenticeship

From as early as I can remember, my answer to the question "what do you want to be? " never really changed. I wanted to a doctor, or a neuroscientist, depending on the day. From young, I had already decided, and that sense of certainty followed me all the way through to UCAS application season. I chose my A-levels accordingly: chemistry, biology and psychology, at a college that heavily encouraged

March 24 Read more

From Doubt to Opportunity: My Apprenticeship Story

Hi, I’m Oscar, a consulting degree apprentice at RSM UK. I work within the firm’s Risk and Governance solution, specialising in Financial Services Risk. My role gives me the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse range of clients - from banks and investment platforms to sovereign wealth funds. I help organisations strengthen their risk management frameworks by evaluating internal controls and g

February 12 Read more

From Being Forced Out of University to a FTSE 100 Apprenticeship

At the start of Year 13, apprenticeships were not something I took seriously. A good friend mentioned them to me, but I dismissed the idea almost immediately. I saw them as the “easy route”, falling into the common narrative that apprenticeships were for people who were not academic enough for university. I also had a teacher tell me that “upper middle class” students go to top universities, not a

December 16, 2025 Read more

Why Not You? My journey from uncertainty to Deloitte

Going to university was my dream! My parents never attended university, and I had never known anyone who had. Like many others, I was told that university was the golden ticket to success. It felt like life was just a matter of ticking oﬀ each stage. First came the GCSEs, which hit me like a punch in the gut when COVID-19 struck, but we got through it. Then came the A Levels, and I had no idea jus

December 9, 2025 Read more

Confidence in yourself is key

I am a seventeen-year-old with a vibrant passion for finance and accounting. Since childhood, I have been fascinated by managing money, making strategic decisions, and understanding how businesses grow. I regularly track my weekly allowance, carefully analysing ways to save more and invest wisely for the future. This passion is rooted in my ambition to run my own company one day and to become a fi

November 25, 2025 Read more

Not knowing is okay – My journey through three apprenticeships

I went straight into my first apprenticeship at level 3, one month after finishing my A levels, but before I got my results. From the minute school started pushing us to decide on what we wanted to do, I knew university wasn’t for me. I was still very unsure of the career I wanted, which made it difficult to think about my next steps. I was worried I was going to be left behind with no direction o

October 28, 2025 Read more

Why I Had to Lose My Way First to Become a Multi-Award-Winning Apprentice with a First-Class Law Degree

In 2019, I returned to London without a law degree, no clear plan, and a growing fear that I had wasted years chasing the wrong dream. What was supposed to be straightforward had unravelled and I started to question everything. I still wanted to become a lawyer, but I had no idea how. I just knew I couldn’t give up yet. I took a job as a Personal Assistant in a cancer treatment hospital during the

October 14, 2025 Read more

Overcoming personal battles to earn a place at a global law firm

Throughout all of high school and college, it was well-known among my peers and teachers that I had big dreams of going to a top university to study law. Fast forward three years and I am halfway through my solicitor apprenticeship with DLA Piper. Hi, my name is Sophie, and I am a fourth-year solicitor apprentice with DLA Piper. If someone had told me five years ago that this is the position I wou

October 7, 2025 Read more

When the Room doesn’t fit, Build a Bigger one: My Legal Apprenticeship Journey

Apprenticeships as are unique as the individuals taking them; I was able to use mine to fit me perfectly by meeting my needs whilst also allowing me to learn and progress. Challenges in Application process My sixth form was university focussed; therefore, they didn’t provide me with any support/guidance. They discouraged me from applying for apprenticeships, so I independently researched into Lega

September 16, 2025 Read more

From Gymnast to Solicitor Apprentice

If you told me this time last year that I would be preparing to start a solicitor apprenticeship, I probably would have laughed. Not because it wasn’t something I wanted, becoming a solicitor has been my goal and what I have been working towards since Year 8. But because at that time, life looked very different. I was dealing with health issues, uncertain about what the future would hold, and ques

August 15, 2025 Read more

My journey to becoming an Award-Winning KPMG Apprentice – and what can you learn from it?

Over 40% of all school-leavers are interested in apprenticeships (UCAS) but 38% of all school leavers face a lack of apprenticeships opportunities in their local area (Co-op). For me, this statistic was incredibly relevant because while many apprentices find roles that keep them close to home, my apprenticeship relocated me over 200 miles away to London where I became a Management Consulting Degre

August 4, 2025 Read more

Career Journeys: There’s Nothing Linear About Them

Nothing about my career path was “traditional”; honestly, that made all the difference. From coming to the UK with no GCSEs to working in a global bank, I’d say it worked out well. It’s okay not to have it all figured out or for your initial plans to fall through. It took me a while to understand what truly worked for me and to explore the options I didn’t even know existed, especially after takin

June 5, 2025 Read more

From Doubt to Drive: My Journey into Finance

My name is Jasneet Grover, I’m 21 years old and currently enrolled on J.P. Morgan’s Level 6 Financial Services Degree Apprenticeship programme. I come from an Afghan Sikh background, and my journey into the world of finance has been anything but traditional. Before starting my apprenticeship, I was in sixth form. While most of my peers were applying for university, I found the idea uninspiring. I’

May 21, 2025 Read more

Achieving What I Thought Was Impossible Through an Apprenticeship

In my last year of school, I had no idea what career path I wanted to pursue. I’ve admitted this openly to my colleagues and it often gets an interesting reaction as most people in my line of work have always had some sort of interest or passion for markets before joining the industry; I did not relate to that. However, one thing I did know is that I didn’t want to progress onto further education

April 11, 2025 Read more