Talent Acquisition Intern Review

by Hays

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    3.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

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

    • Coordinating the Talent Acquisition team and the intern cohort. Scheduling and creating social media posts and pulling together reports. Overseeing projects which includes attraction strategies and DE&I projects. Daily management of team inboxes.

    Skills

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

    • Presentation skills, liaising with, and managing stakeholder expectations (internal and external), reporting and collating/analysing data, designing social media posts, working under pressure, time management.

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

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • A lot, had to manage my own time and projects and could take on additional responsibilities. Expected to make decisions without going through my manager

  • 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?

    • Enough. Great team around me but felt isolating at times as i didn't work with anyone else in my office - great communication via teams though.

  • 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?

    • 5/5

    Culture

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

    • Fast paced, very sales and target driven, large drinking culture on 'period ends', friendly but managers care a lot about hitting targets

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

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

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

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

    • There were good and bad days, as there would be with any corporate job. I enjoyed working with my team and working on projects that were of particular interest to 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 Hays

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

    • No

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

    • Be prepared to work under a lot of pressure and expected to meet targets pretty quickly. If you are sales and money driven then this place is definitely for you.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Recruitment

Yorkshire and Humberside

July 2023

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