Placement Year Details
- Job Title: Knowledge Management Graduate Trainee
- Start Date: 2009
- Length: Placement Year (10 Months+)
- Location: Nottingham,
East Midlands - Salary: £14,000 - £15,999
- Roles: Engineering
- Reviewer’s Course: Information And Knowledge Management
- Reviewer’s University: Loughborough University
- Review Date:
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Review 11/22 for E.ON UK
Job Title: Knowledge Management Graduate Trainee
Overall Rated 6.3
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆
The Role
- Role Description
Maintain portal pages, help with Knowledge Hub, general library duties such as cataloguing and filing, general IRC enquiries.
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?
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Learned what I expected and got to do a lot of things, good experience
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?
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Very friendly and professional team.
- 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?
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Supportive and helped me set challenges.
- 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?
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Always something to do - even if cataloguing/filing.
- 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?
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Got to do my own project, with lots of support when it was needed.
- 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
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Will help a lot, very similar to the modules on my masters course.
The Organisation
- 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?
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Professional, but overall laid back and welcoming.
- 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?
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Initial IS issues meaning i couldn't log on for a couple of weeks, but otherwise good.
- 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
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Been to one training course that was more of a brainstorming session.
- 10. What were the perks on your work placement?
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- Flexi Time
- Subsidised Canteen
- Subsidised/Company Gym
- 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?
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Within a small team, not good.
Other Information
- 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?
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Yes. Been out a few times but already have other friends in Nottingham.
- 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?
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Rent relatively cheap, socialising could be - did have to work a second job to be able to pay rent and bills, couldn't have gone out at all on just placement wage.
- 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?
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Good, but i work in the bar it's good in.
- 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?
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Aware of various sporting activities and groups.
- In addition to these questions, is there any extra information you would like to leave about your experiences on your work placement that other students may be interested in?
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A lot of variation in the job, can be doing completley different things one day to the next, which is brilliant as you get a lot of varied experience. I got a lot out of doing my own project, got lots of support doing it and was interesting.
Review 11/22 for E.ON UK
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