Finance Industrial Placement Review
by GSK
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at GSK
- 7. Would you recommend GSK to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to GSK
Overview
The role was really dynamic, every day was different. I rarely had nothing to do and got involved in many activities. There wasn't a lot of technical aspects of finance covered and most of the work included admin and HR based work such as planning and organizing events. I had monthly and weekly tasks that I was accountable for but every day was different depending on what the team was working on.
Skills
I think this year has allowed me to develop many interpersonal and soft-skills rather than technical skills. I greatly developed my teamwork, planning & organisation, presentation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
Responsibilities
I was part of a really small team so I was given responsibility to do very valuable work that even got presented to Senior Leadership teams. I was also given alot of exposure and did some work with the Chief of Staff to the CFO which was amazing experience and allowed me to work on 3 finance projects that increased my commercial awareness of the business.
Support & Guidance
I receive so much support from my line manager who was amazing from the get go and really tailored activities to what I enjoyed doing. I also got to join a mentoring scheme which paired me up with someone on the grad scheme in Finance which was very insightful and helpful to me.
Culture
The GSK culture and atmosphere was overall really positive and reflective of their values. Everyone was very helpful and accommodating to catching-up and allowing me to learn more about them and their career journeys.
Your Impressions
I loved my placement, although it was fully virtual, I believe it had an amazing impact on me and my future career opportunities in developing really important skills that employers are looking for.
Yes
Make sure you really understand the company (i.e. research beforehand) and apply the values to every question you get asked. I would also say to be your authentic self to see if GSK really is a good fit for you.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Banking, Human Resources
London
June 2021
