Rating
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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 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 MSD
- 7. Would you recommend MSD to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to MSD
Overview
Facilitating promotional and non-promotional activities with the Cardiovascular therapy area to market to healthcare professionals. Leading and managing multiple projects across a range of channels from social media campaigns to brochures and leaflets.
Skills
New skills I have picked up are: Agile way of working to facilitate successful collaboration (KANBAN) Budget Management and Forecasting Compliance and Regulation within pharmaceutical industry Skills I have developed: Presentation Skills Successful communication Teamwork
Responsibilities
Lead on multiple projects and tasks within my role which resulted in great exposure to a range of marketing activities as well as all the internal ways of working within the business. Given responsibility of managing the budget and key results and objective setting for the cardiovascular franchise. Overall, you are given the amount for responsibility you want from your placement
Support & Guidance
I was given huge amounts of support from a plethora of employees, joining within COVID was extremely challenging and meant that I wasn't given a huge handover period from my previous placement student. Saying this, everyone at MSD was very approachable and willing to help with any queries I had just joining and still do now.
Culture
The company culture at MSD is so welcoming and friendly. Joining in COVID it is hard to gauge the culture entirely but spending the last few weeks in the office, there are a huge number of social events and activities.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement - would definitely consider returning to the graduate scheme
Yes
Make sure you research the company before interviewing and have solid grounds for why you want to work for MSD. Be yourself - personality is everything at MSD.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Marketing
London
August 2021