Anthony achieves career success in his role as Team Leader at AV Dawson!
At the age of 32, Anthony has completed his Team Leader NVQ and is now the Team Leader of Port Operations at AV Dawson!
Anthony’s current employer recognised his potential and offered him the opportunity to upskill with an apprenticeship, which he seized with both hands. After a few false starts in various fields, Anthony finally found his niche at AV Dawson, where he now works alongside his father.
When asked about his apprenticeship, Anthony was full of enthusiasm, saying “You only get out of apprenticeships, what you put into them, but I recommend an apprenticeship to everyone!”
The former Unity City Academy student spoke about how in his industry, sometimes experience can be worth more than theoretical knowledge, however, he said “I think apprenticeships are the way forward. You get paid whilst learning, they can be flexible, and you get the experience whilst still achieving the qualification to back your skills up.”
Anthony thoroughly enjoyed his apprenticeship, as he learned a great deal and was able to grow in ways he never thought possible. "I'm more hands-on than anything else in my current role," he said, "and the apprenticeship allowed me to take a step back and grow more than I thought I would have." Anthony benefited from both the theoretical and practical elements of the course, which helped him to learn new skills and progress in his current job role. "Learning new skills to progress my current job role was my favourite part of the apprenticeship," Anthony explained. "It allowed me to access new techniques in order to progress my team and myself in our working environment."
Thanks to the knowledge and experience gained through his apprenticeship, Anthony was able to achieve his biggest career goal to date – getting promoted from being a Charge Hand to becoming the Team Leader of Port Operations at AV Dawson.
Congratulations to Anthony on this fantastic achievement. The 32-year-old is now awaiting the start of another apprenticeship in lifting and hopes to move on to manage the port in a few more months and eventually to take on the role, currently held by his father, of Head of Operations!
