Year in Industry Intern

by Network Rail

Rating

4.3/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • I worked with project managers and supported contractor team

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Learnt about Mapping and note/minute taking. Learnt a lot of about the workings of the rail industry

  • 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?

    • Depends on the tasks, some tasks i was given full control while others it was more the project manager that had control and delegated tasks to the team

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • The placement was mostly online but i did feel supported throughout

  • 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?

    • It was great within my team but it's a big company so didn't really integrate with wider groups

  • 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?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • It was great! Wouldn't change any of it

  • 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 Network Rail

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Network Rail to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Network Rail

    • Be thorough and authentic

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Details

Placement Year (10 Months+)

Engineering

Greater London

November 2021

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