{"id":5299,"date":"2016-11-27T21:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2016-11-27T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:43:48","slug":"cuz-its-always-better-when-were-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/2016\/11\/trainee\/cuz-its-always-better-when-were-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuz it’s always better when we’re together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

Around 3 months ago I started my professional worklife. The very same day 25 others did the same thing. We became the Scania Graduate Trainees 2016\/2017.<\/p>\n

I’ll save the introduction weeks for yet another blog post because these have been very well described in blog posts by my colleagues. If you’re thinking about applying for the next year’s program – application\u00a0opens in week 51 (hint hint) – and are curious about what you are to experience during the recruting process and the first weeks at the program, do yourself a favor and read the entries by Simon Ingebrand<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Alexandra Wilbs<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What I feel has not been as well covered though is the aspect of starting your career as part of a trainee group. In my last entry<\/a>\u00a0I mentioned that this gives you a network from day one, and it seems this is a special kind of connection. My mentor (trainee 2014) has told me they still have lunch every week and see each other outside of work. Also representatives from our exboard (many of them former trainees!) shared stories about how they had been in the trainee program together and how these connections had been valuable throughout their careers within the company. And I think this should not be under estimated. Scania is a rather large company which holds an incredible amount of knowledge and information, and when writing our Master’s thesis, I experienced that knowing whom to ask heavily reduces the time spent looking for it!<\/p>\n

Well, apart from the strategic side of it, having a bunch of new friends experiencing the same sort of things (being new at a department, feeling frustrated or happy about anything, loving or hating their projects etcetera) is a great support. We can laugh it of, support each other with contacts and advice and find out how others handle the situations. It is also a way to get inspiration and to sort out your thoughts about where and when to spend your rotations, since we are spread out over a large number of functions at Scania.<\/p>\n

The introduction contributed in creating a sense of us being a group, especially while we had\u00a0workshop practices at the\u00a0production units in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje. But the group also consists of social and including people coming up with ideas of how to spend evenings and weekends. So far, we have for example had a couple of after works, wine- & cheese tasting, afternoon tea, dinners and a lecture.\u00a0And this weekend, a bunch of us went on a field trip visiting Herman (this year’s trainee at Ferruform) in Lule\u00e5! Ferruform Scania AB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Scania producing\u00a0e.g. driven rear axles and side beams for\u00a0just-in-time deliveries to the assembly plants in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Zwolle and Angers.\u00a0We got a guided tour at their production site and reflected upon how\u00a0much was similar to what we have seen in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, but also how much more organized and new those sites feel. Of course we also took the opportunity to spend the weekend exploring the city. A new adventure awaits already this week though; on Thursday we’ll leave for S\u00e4len! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here comes some photos for you to get to know my trainee group.
\nThe quality is not the best, but the company is!<\/p>\n

\"Having

Having sushi after work.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Studying

Studying for truck driving license.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wine

Wine tasting.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dinner

Dinner and dance.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hanging

Hanging out in a Scania truck.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Early

Early mornings… time for assembly work.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Visiting

Visiting Ferruform.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

All the best,<\/p>\n

\/\/ Therese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, Around 3 months ago I started my professional worklife. The very same day 25 others did the same thing. We became the Scania Graduate Trainees 2016\/2017. I’ll save the introduction weeks for yet another blog post because these have been very well described in blog posts by my colleagues. If you’re thinking about applying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[543,471,544,541,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5319,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/5319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}