IndustrialTrainee Review

by Arup

Rating

4/5
  • Skills
    3.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    3.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Taking tasks from senior engineers ranging from investigative work around exising structures, using equations and softwares to assess their current capability, through to designing new structures, drains etc that need to be built to a required specification.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Absolutely. new softwares, new techniques for solving problems.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 2/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • So Far yes. I am currently running a project while both managers are away, doing what i can without Approving documents. Liaising with other contacts and finding unique solutions to problems.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Everyone has been super friendly and helpful. The only thing I can say that is bad is, sometimes people take a while to respond, but theyre all busy so its not a problem.


  • 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?
  • Friendly, helpful, welcoming open knowledgeable


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

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

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Enjoying it a lot so far, Exacly what I was expecting.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Arup
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Arup to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Arup
  • Dont stress, as long as you are capable, everyone is willing to help on new subjects.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Civil Engineering

Wales

August 2021


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