Training & Personal Development at Air New Zealand

Excellent on this one, we graduates have 5-6 trips (until now 6 month) to visit different departments of the company and see how they work actually, interesting when get to see a lot that you never has the change before.

There is a lot of opportunity for training and development through attending platform and tooling conferences or lunch and learns, showcase slots where other areas of the business share what they are up to or upskilling through mentoring sessions.

The company emphasizes the importance of continuous professional development, encouraging employees to allocate part of their work week to enhancing their skills. This approach allows employees the flexibility to pursue online courses, practice new techniques, and focus on areas they are interested in. However, this self-guided approach can sometimes lead to employees prioritizing immediate work tasks over their development time. Currently, there are no formal internal training and development programs. Instead, development is largely driven by individual initiative and external resources.

A lot of training for me involved shadowing other members of the team and picking up on the tasks that they do. They then allow me to take on some simple tasks and gradually assign me more responsibilities over time. It can be self-driven though depending on the team, but so far this was the best way for me to learn.

I mostly learn along the way, but key things would be to ask questions. Team members are usually happy to have a formal meeting or just a Teams call to demonstrate and show us around. Also lots of graduate tours to show us around the other areas of the business like engineering and aviation related stuff. And an airport tour.

Not too much formal training. There is a lot of informal on the job training. Every week there are Knowledge sessions where all the members of the role that you are in come together and showcase their knowledge and projects being worked on. However you do have to be proactive for your own learning which can be hard when balancing work responsibilities as well.

- Assigned a mentor in my team - Have learnt how to write automation tests in Java - Have learnt about building backend microservices in Java - Built familiarity with AWS - Learning quality assurances best practices - Documentation skillls - Inductions for graduates on different parts of the company - Mandatory learning modules