Last modified on Tue 9 Feb 2021 12.15 EST
Starting as a receptionist at Munday + Cramer in 2017 after finishing her A-levels, 21-year-old Georgia Dear couldn’t have predicted that she’d be training to become a chartered building surveyor less than a year later. But when her managers at the architectural, building surveying and property management firm offered her the chance to study for a degree apprenticeship, she jumped at it. “It was too good an opportunity to turn down,” she says. “I can learn something at university and then a month later it’ll crop up at work, or vice versa. I think doing a degree apprenticeship puts you ahead of people who study full time. You’ve got that work experience already.”