CLASS OF 2012 JUMPS ABROAD ARRIVA GRADUATE SCHEMES


Seven talented and tenacious graduates have beaten 1,400 other applicants to join Arriva UK Bus this month. Another 11 are joining the Arriva Group, which includes bus and rail operations across mainland Europe.


William Pare, Alistair Timmis, Craig Deighton, Hammad Leghari, Tom Sunley, Melissa Kavanagh and Irfan Khan now start an intensive 18 month training scheme that involves a wide variety of placements, from hands-on depot experience with very early mornings to shadowing senior management. Each will also be assigned a director as personal mentor.


The graduate training scheme provides trainees with an in-depth understanding of the business, preparing them for the subsequent move to management roles. Tom Sunley, who is on the specialist engineering programme, will receive training geared towards a more technical role.


The new graduates have a variety of qualifications. For example, Melissa Kavanagh has a BEng from the University of Newcastle and Hammad Leghari has a Masters in Business Studies from Liverpool Business School.


Arriva’s graduate training scheme was launched in 2005, and a number of early recruits now hold very senior positions within the business. Appointed in 2008, Patrick Sibley is now head of commercial modelling and Kim Purcell, who joined in 2007, is now an operations director.


Jo Humphries, people & change director for Arriva, commented: “To achieve our objectives of getting more people onto more buses for


more journeys, we need to deliver at the highest possible level across the business.


“To this end we are committed to investing in recruitment, training and development to ensure that we attract the best people and get the very best from our employees, creating an environment that encourages them to flourish, challenge and innovate. Our graduate programme is a very important part of this and we give a big welcome to this year’s intake.”


Recruitment for 2013 will start in October, and the search for another 20 graduates across the Arriva group will begin.


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