Sandwich Student Economist Review
by Office for National Statistics
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 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 Office for National Statistics
- 7. Would you recommend Office for National Statistics to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Office for National Statistics
Overview
Assist the Data Sources team with current priorities. This involves supporting prioritisation of data acquisitions, based on communications across office to assess need of each new source. Also work on data quality, providing a dashboard of data quality metrics of key data sources used at the ONS
Skills
Yes. A very wide variety of training available and actively encouraged to participate in. Technical skills-wise, I have picked up the fundamentals of Python and R. Regular communications with stakeholders and team members improve soft skills too, with opportunities to present improving my confidence here
Responsibilities
Somewhat yes. Got to feed into important decisions that had ramifications across Economic Statistics at ONS and also fed into some publications, but didn't have responsibility of making that decision by myself
Support & Guidance
Quite a lot. Really positive support from line manager, encouraging to take opportunities beyond business as usual work such as conferences, training and shadowing. A big promotion of mentoring and shadowing facilitates that if desired
Culture
Very friendly and supportive. As expected, some colleagues are more outgoing than others but have not once felt remotely unconformable whilst on placement
Your Impressions
Massively. The array of learning and development, really friendly and supportive colleagues along with a massive drive for inclusivity made it a great place to work. I do recognise that moving nearby the office, meeting fellow placement students and being able to meet with colleagues was a key part of this. The placement would not have been as good fully remotely.
Yes
Would highly recommend it. Especially for a placement where there is an extra focus on learning and development. For the application, it is all run centrally by the Government Economics Service, so allocation to the ONS for placement is random. The assessment structure is rigorous, but the online guidance is helpful and readily applicable
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Economics
Wales
June 2023
