C4.1 Data diary confessions: Blood, sweat and caffeine filled graduate scheme.

This presentation is part of a full breakout session. To add this presentation to your schedule you must add the full breakout session.

Finding appropriately qualified graduates for data management roles can pose a challenge. Training them and engaging them with the aim of retaining them, an even bigger challenge. So, what’s the secret to a new starters’ engagement and fostering a life-long love of data management? During this presentation, we will delve into what makes a compelling Graduate Program, highlighting the features that we feel makes it a great launch pad for a career in data management. We will examine how we foster skill development and nurture technical qualities.

Whether you are in management, interested in how you can set up or improve your own graduate scheme for data managers; or new to data management yourself and interested in another a new starter’s experience, we hope this presentation will have something for you. Through our lessons learned we hope you will gain valuable insights into how the delivery of the training modules combined with hands-on study experience and supportive mentors contribute to building a foundation for a lasting career in data management.