Placement Year Review at Fujitsu

The Role

Role Description

- Collate reports to show product sales and stock within distribution
- Create competitive analysis to show our products against key competitors
- Help with technical queries from distributors regarding products
- Put together price books for distribution and resellers
- Put together sales documents and cheat sheets for distributors to help them sell our products

1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?

★★★★★★★★☆☆

Rated 8/10

A great year with lots of resposibility and opportunities to advance my knowledge.

2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?

★★★★★★★★★☆

Rated 9/10

Felt valued and utilised by colleagues who often asked for my opinion when putting together promotions or answering queries

3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?

★★★★★★★★★★

Rated 10/10

Whenever I had a question about the products people were fantastic in helping and helping me learn.

4. How busy were you on a daily basis?

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Rated 7/10

Overall I had a good workload, but perhaps could have had a bit more to do at certain times during the month.

5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?

★★★★★★★★★☆

Rated 9/10

I had a lot of responsibilty in terms of interaction with partners and getting involved with pricing and creating new promotions myself. As well as being able to input into discussions about the products and being listened to a great deal.

6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?

★★★★★★★★★★

Rated 10/10

I feel the skills I've learned here in terms of professionalism and interaction as well as time management will be invaluable for my final year of university and beyond.

The Organisation

7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?

★★★★★★★★★☆

Rated 9/10

Good team of people who all got on and as well as there being a professional atmosphere it was never boring and people were always having a laugh.

8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?

★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆

Rated 4/10

The overall job side of the work placement was fantastic, but I found that before the placement, there was no job description given and it wasnt really until my first day that I had any idea what it was I was going to be doing. I was lucky in the fact I have had a good job, but others working here were not so lucky. I also felt that the training days and 'IP' days were fairly basic and there wasnt much in the way of external training days.

9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?

★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Rated 3/10

The IP training days we were given were fairly basic, just given by internal IP support staff about general topics such as communication. To be fair my department offered my some additional training but the HR scheme they were on were unable to place me anywhere as there wasnt enough people on the training. I was given product training and support training for my job though.

10. What were the perks on your work placement?

★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

Rated 5/10

• Flexi Time
• Sports and Social Club
• Company Parties/Events
• Staff Sales/Staff Shop
• Working from home

11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?

★★★★★★★★★★

Rated 10/10

With a good year and a 2:1 they offer you a fast track route onto the grad scheme which is great to have, there is also someitmes opportunites to come back into your department as a grad and continue working there.

Other Information

12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?

★★★★★★★★★★

Rated 10/10

Fujitsu take on alot of IP's, in our year there were 30+ so we had a great social scene, mostly all the students lived in shared houses with each other in the same area of Reading so we never had a boring weekend,

13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?

★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

Rated 5/10

Fairly average, we all lived in Reading so there were some student nights but generally not overpriced.

14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?

★★★★★★★★☆☆

Rated 8/10

Reading has a fairly good nightlife, but where the job is based (Bracknell) I wouldn't advise heading out there with any high hopes!

15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Rated 7/10

Fujitsu has a good out of work scheme with a Football team, Cricket team and a sports/social club so there is alot of opportunites to get involved.

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?

As I said before, Fujitsu can be a great placement year or a terrible one - really depending on the department you end up in. I would advise you push for job information beforehand and try not to go into the role blind, in case you end up as an admin worker like has happend to some students this year.

Review 13/19 for Fujitsu

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