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Jake Chapman

Biography

Why did you choose to study your course at Petroc/North Devon College?
I chose Petroc because it is close to me and works with the local community.

How did your time at Petroc prepare you for your current role or Higher Education?
It prepared me by teaching me the experiences needed in life and the workplace.

How did you choose the field of work you are now in?
I have always had an enjoyment of using IT equipment, but I found that I had an interest in how it was and evolved into how to fix this when it goes wrong.

What do you LOVE about your role?
The different problems and tasks that I deal with thought out the week.

What’s been your proudest ‘work’ moment since leaving Petroc?
My proudest work is when there was an issue with a PC not allowing external hard drives to access. After some investigation, I found that the rule that would allow them to be accessed had stopped working.

This was fixed but one of the hard drives still had an issue where the PC couldn’t read it, but a laptop could. After some further investigation, I found the Hard Drive couldn’t be accessed as the format of the drive was for Linux OS, so couldn’t be accessed by Windows after that I found some software on the laptop that would allow it to be read and then found that the PC also has the software.

After some testing, I found that the newest version of that software didn’t work on Windows 11 but the last version did what it didn’t have a manage software updated to the broking version.

What are your best memories from your time at Petroc (friends, lecturers, work experience etc)?
The support of the lectures: Marianne Davies, Josh Symes, Michelle Semmens and Pete Semmens.

Do you have any advice for someone about to embark on their college journey?
Petroc is a brilliant place to study with wonderful and supportive staff who will help you if you ask and your instinct is to finish as fast as you can to get into a job but stay as long as you can, as it will open a world of options for you.
Find something else that you want to learn like catering or construction something that will give you the life skills that might benefit you in life.

COURSE(S) STUDIED

T Level in Digital Production, Design & Development

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Petroc is a brilliant place to study with wonderful and supportive staff who will help you.