Vacation Student Review

by Arup

Rating

4.3/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

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

    • Assisting members of Facade Engineering team with various tasks such as calculations, searching through drawings, site inspections, reports and various formatting and organisational jobs

    Skills

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

    • Yes, very many

  • 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?

    • 3/5
  • 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?

    • Yes

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

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

    • A comfortable amount of support/guidance but not too much - allowed to learn independently

  • 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?

    • A friendly and happy atmosphere which is not based on overworking employees. More events and social activities would be nice.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • Very enjoyable and productive most of the time - occasional periods of lack of work and redundancy

  • 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 Arup

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Arup to a friend?

    • Yes

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

    • Be prepared and capable of finding tasks to do independently.

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Civil Engineering

Scotland

July 2023

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