Supply Chain Interm Review

by L'Oreal

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.8/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • My day to day role involved keeping up to date with KPIs whilst working on other projects alongside. KPIs reports include weekly and monthly, alongside this, other long-term projects usually took up time in my day to day tasks. Some of the projects include maintaining site communications, processing warehouse damages, participating in Peoples voice campaign and deploying ESH life risks project.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I had the opportunity to learn many new skills including the use of different softwares i.e SAP. However i significantly developed many existing skills including; presenting, communication, networking. I had many opportunities to present in front of different audiences, therefore i think my presenting skills have developed the most.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • After picking up my initial responsibilities when began settling into my role, many of my colleagues trusted me to begin working leading other projects alongside my daily responsibilities. For example I was given the responsibility to lead 'go green' project to replace plastic bags used within DC with more environmentally friendly grass paper bags.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I was the only intern within my team , so received a great amount of great amount of support and guidance from all my colleagues. working with many of them on different projects, I gained invaluable amount of experience and learned different things from them all. i had weekly 1-1 meetings my manager to discuss my progress, I am so grateful for them to have made me feel so welcomed and for trying to give me as much exposure to different things as possible.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • One of the best aspects about my placement was the people I worked with, I was unfortunate that I had to work from home majority of the time due to Covid. However, the times I was in the office, I tried to make the most of it by collaborating and working with different colleagues. I am very grateful each and everyone of them.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I have thoroughly enjoyed my placement year, I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to work with. I received great exposure outside my work department with opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across divisions. Also, considering the circumstances, I had a great working from home/office balance, working in the office 2-3 days a week was great for me to get to know everyone and build professional relationships.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at L'Oreal
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend L'Oreal to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to L'Oreal
  • One advice I would give to anyone applying to L'Oréal is to be true, authentic self and be open minded to learning new things and working with different colleagues. Everyone has something, they could team you. Being open minded and respectful is important, other skills can always be learned and developed.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Business Management

East Midlands

July 2021


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