Work Experience Review
by Matalan
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 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 Matalan
- 7. Would you recommend Matalan to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Matalan
Overview
Involved researching Matalan’s current well-being offer and evaluate this against other retailers, giving recommendations of how they can improve for their colleagues. A survey was given to colleagues of Matalan, which it was anonymously answered, and the findings and recommendations for improvements by us were presented to the HR team.
Skills
I developed my existing skills including public speaking, researching, critical thinking, and team work.
Responsibilities
Yes, as during my placement it was our responsibility to find information that Matalan may not know about. For example, how their colleagues really feel about how their job affects their mental wellbeing. This made us responsible to make Matalan’s HR team and well-being team aware of the problems.
Support & Guidance
A lot of support was there during my placement, our advisor made it comfortable for us to ask any questions we had and whatever we needed she was there for us. Really great support from Matalan.
Culture
Although we were in the head office of Matalan, we didn’t see many people apart from people in the canteen and the hallways but it seemed like a great atmosphere they have there. All chatty and happy people.
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed my placement because it gave me a view of what it was like in an environment and atmosphere that I am not familiar with. I feel as though it helped me developed my existing experiences and pushed me towards my life goal career.
Yes
Put yourself out there, it’ll make you stand out in a good way.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Human Resources, Research, Surveying
North West
September 2023
