I found that when I was applying for internships, the key part for myself was gaining skills and benefiting my own personal growth. And the TriMech Group offered a lot of skill gaining, a lot of certification, and a lot of skills that would benefit me moving forwards. When I was in high school, my pro design GCSE was for CAD specifically and using SOLIDWORKS. So I went off and did some things. with art and a bit with art and a bit with engineering as well. But throughout all of that, I always kind of did leant more towards the CAD side. So this seemed like the perfect placement where I could kind of do a bit of project work but mainly focus on CAD development. I wasn't particularly confident in speaking and that's something I wanted to build on. So the teaching role was one of the main things. Of course you've got the training and being on technical support so just being immersed in SOLIDWORKS. I enjoyed it at university. It wasn't the best but I had like a genuine interest. I knew that I wanted to go down the CAD route. I wasn't too sure in like which particular area but that was why support was ideal because you're almost like a fly on the wall and you deal with so many different types of problems. So I felt like I could keep it broad. I'd say the best lesson I learned was just to say yes. So that's probably how I actually ended up getting the job at SOLIDWORKS. I met Neil, the founder of SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS.3D at a trade show. We really got on well. I expressed how I had an interest for 3D printing and he and my managers helped factor in a bit of this 3D printing work. It was never on the agenda to do and then say four or five years down the line I'm now working in 3D printing and it worked out really well and that all came from the fact I said yes to that opportunity. Hone in on all those skills that you learned during your internship for sure. That's the easiest thing you can do is lean on the experience that surrounds you and you know be a sponge to all the knowledge that surrounds you both from a CAD perspective but from a general engineering perspective and then find lots of different programs, lots of different niches within the industry. Try your hand at all of them and you might be surprised as to what actually stands out, what sort of you know makes you feel good in terms of what you're doing. I think the main thing is just being keen to get involved and stuck in. Even if you don't know the answer straight away you'll be able to figure them out over time and there's nothing wrong with asking questions because that is the way that you learn. Once you've kind of got that baseline of skill with SOLIDWORKS a lot of it is figuring it out as you go. So building those problem solving skills and just having confidence to try things out will definitely get you much further. I think the best tip would be you know in terms of skill gaining you know there's a lot to learn there's plenty of offers and opportunities within the group and within the company to expand your own skills but also help and blossom within the company and within the group. So I think to benefit on that is certainly key. Take as many opportunities as you can and enjoy the placement. When I came back as a full-time employee my job role wasn't that different and that's one of the best things about the placement scheme actually at Solid Solutions. You're actually doing real life work that everyone else in the team would be doing. So when I came back I was getting straight back into that same realistic role just with slightly more responsibility on my shoulders and then things grew from there on. So I originally started on the technical side for Solid Print 3D helping with servicing machines, running machines. I then moved into a sales role. That role has now seen me actually move to London and we've now just opened an office with the TriMet group. So that role has seen me develop lots of skills associated with that. So problem solving those sorts of things has been quite beneficial. The company's been great at supporting the development of my career since I've been back because especially for me and you know for my manager they've been pushed me quite hard to identify an area that I wanted to upskill in since coming back and then sort of tried to liaise with the product managers of that product to get me moving along in terms of upskilling and learning that. The company have always been very supportive. You know you've got little teams within your own sort of areas but everybody just you know wants to get along and to enjoy working together and to have some really valuable time during your career. I would say especially in in terms of what I want to do in terms of what I want to do and what I want to chase they're there to support you and I just found that something that's something that's really powerful. They're never going to make you uncomfortable. They're never going to make you forced to do something. They're always as a team they're there for you. Personally I had no problems going from my internship straight through into a graduate role. I think I enjoyed my time so much that very rarely would have crossed my mind to go anywhere else. I think it also felt almost like I owed the company some of my time to come back and you know deliver on all of the personal development that they gave us in those first few months and certainly throughout the rest of our internship. But yeah there were you know there might have been other offers out there. I think it's very difficult to take an offer from another company or even to discuss another offer with another company when you've made such good friends and colleagues in that short space of time. It might only be a year long but you spend so much time developing yourself and the company with these people that actually that's what you're coming back for. You're coming back for the culture and the continuance of those relationships. The thing that really sealed the deal for Trimec was the benefits that the company provides. They are pretty comprehensive. The sort of social events that the company puts on are great and I knew that from intern year because they ended up doing a few of those. So they really sort of pushed it up a notch in comparison to the competition I would say and really make it an attractive place to continue on at.