Future Careers Industrial Placement Student Review
by Unilever
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 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 Unilever
- 7. Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
Overview
I support on the attraction, recruitment and programme management of Unilever's Future Careers programmes including apprentices, placements and graduates. This means that my day to day responsibilities vary based on which part of the recruitment cycle we are in. I am currently helping to onboard all our 2022 new starter Industrial Placement (IP) students and offboarding the 2021 new IP starters.
Skills
Since being on placement I have developed my organisational communication, critic thinking and data literacy skills. The thing that has improved the most throughout my placement has been my confidence in my own capabilities.
Responsibilities
I was given a lot more responsibility than I expected. For example, managing the Future Careers learning development team in their delivery of the learning plan to all Future Careers employees.
Support & Guidance
I felt very supported by my Line Manager, team and HR throughout my placement. I had catch-up calls with my whole team twice weekly and a weekly catch-up call with my line manager. Everyone in the organisation is also very friendly and happy to help where they can.
Culture
There is a very open and safe culture. We have several employee networks dedicated to empowering all employees, including disability, gender, race and LGBTQIA+ networks. There is a community and wellbeing team dedicated to planning social networking events for our future careers employees.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement at Unilever and would love to have the opportunity to return once I graduate.
Yes
My advice to those applying would be to research the company and it's values as Unilever's Purpose is at the heart of what we do.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Human Resources
South East
May 2022
