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Whilst studying hard in school, Gabriele knew that she wanted to go into an apprenticeship, but she was unsure about which industry was best suited to her.

“I had never been in the corporate environment before. I think Uptree really gave me that exposure to different corporate areas that I could go into. Uptree was so flexible as you don’t have to do a law focused work experience if you don’t want to, you could also do insights into finance or real estate. That was really helpful because I originally wanted to do law and I ended up in an audit accounting finance position.”

Gabriele found that attending in person experience events helped motivate her to pursue her dream career.

“The KPMG work experience was so helpful. There are so many work experiences that are online nowadays, but in my opinion they never amount to the actual physical onsite work experiences. There’s just something different about being in the office and the environment and the workspace. That was so motivational to me. To be honest, after studying for two years you get so burnt out, just seeing other people in a career that you want to pursue is really motivating.”

“Seeing apprentices and actually hearing their experiences and not hearing them glorifying it but actually hearing them tell the truth and how their day to day life is was so helpful… Just talking with recruiters was so helpful to me. I wasn’t aware that there were so many recruiters at the event and just hearing how they sieve through the process of eliminating certain candidates. I was able to do my application with what they said in mind… It’s just those little details that were really important to me and I think all together it really helped me with my apprenticeship.”

Gabriele believes that Uptree helped boost her confidence in entering into the world of work. She’s now thriving as an Audit Apprentice at KPMG.

“I genuinely don’t think I would have been able to do it without Uptree because I feel like you guys really gave me the confidence I needed to go into the corporate environment and actually feel like ‘you know what, I can be here’.”

“[Uptree] made me research more and it really just made me do more to put myself in a position where I can now say I have an apprenticeship role in finance.”

“My interactions with Uptree really helped. I was reading the newsletters and watching the day to day life of an apprentice at KPMG and it was obviously motivating but it was also really informative. The exposure that Uptree has given me has led me to grow my confidence. At the start I didn’t know what I was doing. If I was at my KPMG interview I would have not known how to present myself, how to conduct myself, what to say and I think those little interactions with Uptree through emails every week was really helpful. Even every week when you see the little notification in your email, it kind of told me ‘you need to be doing something right now, they’re here writing newsletters and you’re here sitting on your phone’. I think that was really helpful.”

If you are unsure about what industry you want to go into or if you want some experience to help make your applications stand out and build your confidence, then check out Uptree’s upcoming events.