Training & Personal Development at WSP Australia

There is a lot of thought at effort that goes into the Graduate training programs but there is not a lot of technical training avenues. While I appreciate courses like 'How to Have Effective Conversations', 'How to Collaborate' etc I would rather learn 'Basics of Project Management' or be moved around to different teams and have a more structured learning - something more technical or at least learn more about company processes. (i.e How to book travel, How to submit a reimbursement form etc)

A lot of effort went into the training program. There are many courses available for employees to learn almost any aspect of the business.

I am really happy with the on the job training, just unfortunate that people keep leaving as it has made it harder at times to get help in a timely way when needed. The graduate program has been really good virtual training, but I wish that there was some more face to face stuff.

Formal graduate and on boarding training is quite comprehensive, however is quite generalised as is only natural in a company with such diverse roles. Topics include company specific policies and safety procedures, general health and safety (e.g. ergonomics, wfh safely). Graduate program deals with how to foster emerging professional roles, communication and expectations, managing time, etc. On the job training is great as there is opportunity to work on a wide range of projects. Colleagues have a wide range of knowledge to share.

Informal and on the job technical training is excellent. Formal training and mentoring is very limited and is mostly online seminars which are not engaging.

Good accessible to training, proposal writing, etc.

Time management training: During this one hour session we were taught about ways to efficiently manage our time at work and how to balance work and personal life

I don't feel as though I am learning as much technical content as I should.

Required to have quarterly meetings recording personal development and career goals, this allows your training to be tailored to what you want to achieve.

Lost of online seminars on diverse topics, I enjoyed one last week on women in leadership discussing their pathways to where they are now. We are supported to attend external industry training events too.

online training and inductions as needed.

Avoid burnout Time Management Career Progression networking

There is online resources made available for some softwares, though the best way to learn is through others with experience. People try to teach & help out where they can, but are often also extremely busy. There is a push to have billable hours so if you want training it sometimes has to be in your own time.

Formal training does not include technical skills. The reason given by the graduate program is that it is difficult to cater for all graduates from different disciplines. While I agree, I would strongly suggest that some allowance (other than work hours) to be made for technical skill training, such as paying for training courses. Skills I have learn on the job are very specific to the individual projects. However, as I have been exposed to similar projects over a short period of time, the skills are transferable. It is difficult to say in the future with the variety of project potentially to be given.

It took me a long time to get detailed design work which was frustrating and what I looked forward to most when I joined the company

The graduate program is great

Internal training and induction. Learnt about the company, how things work, how to set myself up for my learning and development and informal python training (only been with the company for a short time so haven't been exposed to everything yet).

I am part of the Graduate program which has regular workshops and training modules. We also have dedicated training modules for the company itself, for all employees, and recently I have gotten 4WD training and white card induction for work requirements, which has been great to have.

- HSE - General soft skills through REACH - Lunch and Learn every week with relevant topics - AWS training - ARR 2019 - Additional webinars every week (EA, AWS, etc)

External training has been good. Basically no internal training because everyone is too busy.