MARIAM Safi is taking the NAB by storm as one of the youngest yet hardest working tellers to pass through its Dandenong branch.
The Narre Warren resident says she is unsure how her nomination came about, but is excited for the opportunity.
“It’s a good feeling – people at least appreciate what you are doing and you are credited for it,” she said.
Mariam most enjoys dealing with customers and the challenges associated with doing so in a banking environment.
Her goal is to work her way up to becoming an auditor of local NAB branches.
“I would like to be a Regional Executive Assistant – you audit branches and see if they are compliant with everything.”
DAVID Stanley spends his days programming CNC machines at C and I Precision Engineering in Seaford.
While he began his apprenticeship as a fitter and turner, David fell in love with toolmaking after studying it at Chisholm TAFE.
That passion won him a trip, courtesy of Chisholm, to Japan to visit several key tool making sites and further his knowledge and understanding of the trade.
“Just after I won the award, Chisholm came forward and told me they were going to nominate me for the Youth Enterprise Award,” he said.
At C and I Precision Engineering, David is responsible for programming the CNC machines that then take the design and automatically build that part.
David said he enjoyed CNC programming.
“The company I am working for makes a diverse range of things, so every day is generally different,” he said. “I may be running the same machines but what I’m making varies a lot.”
CRAIG Johnstone owns a Nissan GT Patrol and a Holden Gemini coupe.
While it seems the odd couple of the car world, each car has a practical use – and that’s the intelligent thinking that has earned the young apprentice a nomination for the Youth Enterprise Award.
“I use one for four wheel driving on the weekends and the other I just cruise around,” he said.
Craig is in the third year of his apprenticeship at Track Right1, a smash repairs workshop in Dandenong.
“We do mechanical smash repairs, a lot of insurance company jobs. But we don’t do a lot of body work, it’s mainly suspension and mechanical work.”
Craig said he was ‘stoked’ to be nominated for the Youth Enterprise Award after having applied the hard yards to his apprentice studies at Chisholm TAFE.
Craig is doing fourth-year studies because he had already completed a pre-apprenticeship course that allowed him to accelerate his studies.
Craig hopes to one day own hs own smash repairs shop.
