Operations Asset Intern Review

by National Grid

Rating

4.2/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    3.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Reaching out to people in the team, going on site visits, learning about cable maintenance and how to score asset health


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Developed my communicating, sense making and curiosity skills, as well as gaining experience presenting


  • 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?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes I had to write a policy and it was down to me to set up meetings with people


  • 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?
  • I received all the guidance I needed when I struggled I was able to ask for help but also it had the right balance so I could try and figure things out on my own first


  • 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?
  • Great culture! Really felt like the employees were cared about


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • I really enjoyed it


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

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 3/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at National Grid
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend National Grid to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to National Grid
  • There is so many areas and with anything you can make the role your own Reach out to people everyone is friendly


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

West Midlands

September 2023


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