Win

An Apple TV HD

The HD box gives you anytime voice control access to thousands of HD movies and TV shows from iTunes or through Apple TV on your HDTV. Includes Apple TV free for three months and an HDMI cable to get you started. For a chance to win an Apple TV HD, fi nd the answer to the question below in this issue of the magazine. Send your answer, with your full name and contact details, to yello_ecsuk@dhl.com or text your answer to 07860 021367.

Closing date: 21 February 21 February 2022 2022

Q Name the hit song sung by driver

Kevin Walsh in our recruitment video video

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Terms and conditions: Entry to our competition is free. To enter, you must be a DHL Parcel UK colleague. You can only enter the competition once and the fi rst entry per colleague will be accepted. The winner will be selected at random from all eligible entries. Editor’s decision is fi nal and no cash alternative will be off ered. We collect your details, name, contact number and address solely for the purpose of processing and selecting a competition winner. The winner will be contacted and their name will be printed in the next edition. Your data is not shared with any third party and deleted after the competition has fi nished and the winner confi rmed. Entries must be received by 21 February 2022.

Congratulations to Piotr Pawlowski, a Bulk Driver at Chandlers Ford, who won an Echo Show 8 in the last issue’s competition

“Scary” course will help us grow

Graham Rawcliff e drew on every ounce of his Can Do attitude and Passion for the job when he was enrolled in a university course that could make all our lives easier.

But the Parcels Revenue Controlling Manager’s fi rst day on the intensive Maastricht University course in the Netherlands left him wondering what he’d let himself in for.

To get that far and join the 60 other colleagues from around the world on the DHL sponsored course, Graham (right) had to complete a 10-hour entrance exam, read up on the Advanced Book of Maths for Scientists and learn a new coding language called Python.

Scary stuff

“I got there on the fi rst day and thought, ‘I’m in very deep here’ and it was pretty high-profi le scary stuff , but I stuck with it and it’s been one of the best things that I’ve ever done,” says Graham.

His new skills will give him the ability to create and use a system that allows for any manual task to be automated and will even enable us to use statistics, fi gures and other data to predict what we need and where as we move into the future.

The course meant lots of time after hours and at weekends and Graham adds: “It felt like 12 months of learning crammed into one, even though it was actually six months long. It was intensive but the benefi ts to the business could be incredible.”

Daunting

VISHAL OPENING UP GAP IN TITLE CHASE

His new skills such as data modelling, text analytics and data visualisation will mean he can create predictive models that will improve our collection of data and the way we categorise information from our customers. He says: “After the initial shock it was heads down and get on with it. Like any training, the thought is more daunting than the reality but once you’ve done it you are better equipped to do the job even better.”

The recommendation for Graham to do the remote course came from Chief Finance Offi cer Peter Krohn, who hailed the Ryton colleague when he passed the exam: “It was hard work on top of your normal work, so congratulations.” Vishal Popat leads the way in the DHL Fantasy League, with more than 100 points separating fi rst and tenth but he won’t need reminding it’s a marathon not a sprint.

1 VISHAL POPAT 889 2 DON HOWIE 862 3 ALEX CARBOTT 842 4 PAUL STEWART 830 5 ADAM KIELY 826 6 ADAN HASSAN 813 7 DANNY B 800 800 8 RICHARD OSBORNE 785 785 9 JON PEILL 780 780 10 SAM STEVENSON 775 775