Project Assistant Review

by Mace

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.3/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

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

    • Joined meetings on projects including the Science Museum and Natural History Museum. Looked through tender documents for the Science Museum and picking the different sub contractors to start the work. In the Cost Consultancy team worked mainly landscaping phase 1 of a project on BimMeasure. Visited different sites.

    Skills

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

    • Learnt how to use BimMeasure in measuring buildings and different elements of a building. Improved on my networking and communication skills. Learnt how to use excel much more in depth in taking actions down from meetings, providing documents. My confidence to speak more on tasks got better.

  • 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?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • I was given a decent amount of responsibility in providing documents to send to the client and also in cost consultancy measurements that needed updating to send final valuations to clients.

  • 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?

    • I was given a good amount of support to start and during my internship as I was introduced to new methods on working as a team and how a corporate environment operates.

  • 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?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Good atmosphere and nice culture with new practices being brought in. I was happy to see a decent amount of black people that work there made it easier for me to communicate with them as there is familiarity.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

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

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

    • 5/5

    Your Impressions

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

    • I enjoyed it a lot the networking with other people on the internship and the general perks and day to day work in a new industry for me.

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Mace

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Mace to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Mace

    • Be brave, do not be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and work hard to ensure you can progress as there is plenty of roles to progress into and grow in and out of work

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Management Consulting

London

October 2022

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