Year In Industry Review

by Network Rail

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Collecting information, preparing construction related documents and doing AutoCad drawings


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • My AutoCad skills have improved greatly as well as soft skills like, presenting, handling stakeholders and using different softwares


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • At certain points of the year I have had a reasonable amount of responsibility however for most of it not that much


  • 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?
  • There has been plenty of support on demand but not necessarily a good formal structure for my development


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • It's a great culture, very respectful and understanding. Very good on inclusion and very few personality problems


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 2/5

  • 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?
  • I did enjoy the work a lot and some of the things I've gotten to experience, however it has been slightly isolating due to me being the only intern in my office


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 3/5

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Network Rail
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Network Rail to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Network Rail
  • To try and get organised early on to understand where you find information/ help rather than relying on people to hand it to you


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Civil Engineering

South West

July 2023


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