Avove Graduate Schemes
Explore our graduate schemes
A graduate scheme is a brilliant way to start your career after completing your university degree. It allows you to apply what you have learnt in higher education, whilst still receiving support, training and development on the job.
What is a Graduate scheme?
Graduate programmes or graduate schemes vary depending on the companies offering them. They can last between 1 to 3 years and can offer:
- Hands on experience of different areas of a company
- A structured training programme to help you learn and develop at a faster rate
- Coaching and mentoring
- Rotations
- Support with additional professional qualifications or registrations
In some graduate programmes you will work in one specialist role, gaining in-depth experience, as well as completing graduate activities that the company provides. In other programmes you may rotate around different business functions, learning different roles and a variety of skills.
Why choose an Avove Graduate programme?
Our graduate opportunities are more than just a job and we are proud to offer a two-year graduate programme, giving you the opportunity to develop within a graduate role and reach your full potential. You will get the chance to learn from our talented colleagues, be mentored, take part in masterclasses, complete Insights training, attend development days, and benefit from bespoke graduate training. We want you to love what you do, learn quickly, broaden your horizons, get hands-on experience, make a difference from day one whilst receiving a competitive salary and excellent benefits.
We are committed to nurturing, supporting and developing our future workforce and our graduates are key for this. Being a graduate with us really does mean you are the future of our business!
Who can Apply for an Avove Graduate Programme?
Our approach to hiring graduates isn’t just about the type or classification of degree you have; it focuses on you as a person too, but as a guide:
- Some of our graduate roles will require a specific degree, as it will be a specialist role, but for some of our roles any degree will be suitable, please read our graduate job adverts carefully for this
- We require all our graduates to have a minimum of a 2:2-degree classification
- You need to be graduating in the year of our intake or have recently graduated.
Our Services and Teams
We do loads of exciting things in the utilities industry!
Water
We help make sure safe, clean water reaches homes and businesses all over the UK. We work with big water companies on projects to do with reservoirs, aqueducts and pipelines.
Wastewater
We help to design and build the UK’s wastewater network such as sewer diversions, storage tanks and pumping stations. These projects can be complex and mean our engineers are some of the best around!
Vegetation Management
Our arborist teams make sure that power supplies aren’t disrupted by overgrown trees or vegetation. This work also helps prevent wildfires and makes sure electricity is safely delivered to homes and businesses.
Design & Build
We help support UK water infrastructure by designing and building projects for our clients – everything is done in-house, and we see the projects through from start to finish.
Enabling Functions
From Marketing to Finance, we have lots of office-based roles that look after our people and our operations.
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Our Graduate programme Approach
We want you to reach your full potential and have the best start to your career with us, our graduate programme offers:
- An induction week
- Insights training
- Bespoke graduate training
- Mentoring
- On the job training
- Masterclasses
- Graduate development days
- A dedicated people manager, mentor and early careers programme manager
- Support with any additional qualifications/registrations needed
Your Pipeline to Success
We intake graduates each September and will begin advertising our roles in late October/early November the year before our intake. Our selection process will begin from the January onwards.
Once you have secured your graduate role, you will join us with our other graduates in September and complete a four-day induction with us and an external training provider to ensure you have the best possible start in your career with Avove. Our graduate programmes will last for two years with our specialist graduates staying in the same role over the two years. Once you have completed your two-year graduate programme, you will move into a permanent role and continue your career journey with us.
Application Process
To apply for our graduate roles, you will need to submit a CV for the role that interests you via our recruitment pages.
If we decide to progress your application, you will be invited for an initial interview so we can get to know you and you can learn more about the role and us as a company. Successful candidates from this first interview will be asked to come back for a second more competency-based interview and a role-related task completion. From this, job offers will be made to the successful candidate.
Don’t forget this process isn’t just about us interviewing you, you need to ‘interview’ us and make sure the role is right for you, and we are the right company for you to progress your career with, so make sure you ask lots of questions and try to meet as many people as possible.
Application Tips
You will find application help on our resource page, but some top application tips are:
- Check your spelling: Try to make sure all spelling and grammar is correct before you apply for the apprenticeship
- Language: Don’t use slang or ‘text talk’ when applying
- Tell the truth: Don’t lie when applying it is likely you will be caught out at some point!
- Is it accurate: Make sure your contact details are correct so we can contact you and check your emails regularly
- Read up: Read up and research us, google us, reach out to people who work at Avove on LinkedIn and ask questions about what it is like to work here
Graduate Scheme FAQs
What is a graduate scheme?
It is a brilliant way to start your career after completing your university degree. It allows you to apply what you have learnt in higher education, whilst still receiving support, training and development on the job.
Why choose a graduate scheme?
You will get the opportunity to apply what you have learnt at university whilst also being trained, mentored, developed and offered lots of other opportunities to rapidly progress your career.
What are the entry requirements of a graduate scheme?
Each company is different but for us:
- You will need either a specific degree or a general degree, depending on the role
- We require all our graduates to have a minimum of a 2:2-degree classification
- You need to be graduating in the year of our intake or if you have already graduated, it needs to be within the last 12-24 months of our intake
What is the graduate scheme application process?
Apply for the role you are interested in by submitting your CV via our recruitment pages. If we want to progress your application, you will be invited for an initial interview so we can get to know you and you can get to learn more about the role and us as a company. Successful candidates from this first interview will be asked to come back for a second more competency-based interview and a role related task completion. From this, job offers will be made to the successful candidate.
What areas of the business do you recruit graduates in to?
Currently we recruit into the following teams:
- Delivery
- Design
- Commercial
- Finance
- Marketing & Communications
- Planning & Scheduling
What qualifications will I gain from an Avove Graduate Scheme?
If you need additional qualifications or registrations for your chosen career path, we will support you on these. For example, if you are a graduate in Finance you will study for either your ACCA or CIMA qualifications and if you are a graduate in Design you will work towards your IEng or CEng registrations. Not every graduate studies for additional qualifications, it depends on the graduate role you apply for.