Supply Chain Industrial Placement Review
by Unilever
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 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
My role as part of the global learning and capabilities team for Supply Chain requires me to oversee and promote the learning programmes created for our SC colleagues. We are also working towards building a learning culture inside of SC.
Skills
My role requires me to create learning programmes and promote them. In order to create them, I need to talk to a lot of different people about subject matter at hand. This helped to improve my communication skills and my organisation skills as some projects are quite large and have many moving parts. I also need to regularly communicate with stakeholders to let them know how the project is moving along.
Responsibilities
I was given a lot of responsibility from the get go. It was good because that is what I was hoping from a placement experience. However, I cannot say it wasn't difficult at times, especially if your line manager has a lot of direct reports and has to support all of them and you are struggling a little.
Support & Guidance
You get the support from your line manager in your day to day which is good. My wider team was also very supportive and nice so that was great. You also get support from the wider early careers team as they organise many training sessions throughout the year and these training sessions are often useful. They do like to build a community amongst the IP, UFLPs and apprentices.
Culture
Unilever has a nice company culture, there is a lot of emphasis on looking after your wellbeing and it never sounds false, like they genuinely do care for their employees. The company has organised some F2F events but I am sure it wasn't as many as they would have liked due to COVID-19.
Your Impressions
I have enjoyed my placement a lot. It was in a role that I never imagined myself doing but I've gained a lot of different skills that I know will be useful any role. My LM was always pushing me (in an encouraging way) to do better and my team was a great and supportive team. I would go back to Unilever but I would try a different role.
Yes
Do your research on Unilever's sustainability ambitions and think about how the role you are applying to could help Unilever reach that ambition and then you can't really go wrong.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Logistics and Operations, Manufacturing, Consumer Products/FMCG
North West
May 2022
