Quality Placement Student Review

by Cummins

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Helping keep the checking of the engines to a high standard. Providing reports, investigating issues, being part of large working groups. I help out in so many different things that it's difficult to describe what I do on a daily basis. I can create analytical tools or help with engines that need to be fixed. Design trackers and fill them in. I am trusted to always be doing work and there's always a lot for me to do.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Excel, Power BI, Generic Computer skills, Task management, Time Management, Investigatory Skills, Network Building. I've developed a lot in my confidence and people skills as you need both to do the job. I've developed my problem solving to a very high level as there are lots of different tasks/issues everyday and you need to try and get through them all


  • 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?
  • Far more than expected. I was treated as an adult should be and trusted to take on challenges. There is a lot of work at Cummins to be done and people will ask for help with as much as they can to give you the best opportunities. I wasn't given too much responsibility as there are things that a placement student can't do, however I've been involved in anything that I physically can be.


  • 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 had a lot at the start with the previous placement extending his contract to teach me. Since he left there are plenty of people who I can talk to and ask advice from. You won't be guided step by step very often but people will offer help where they can. Most people are incredible helpful and understanding too.


  • 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?
  • Surprisingly pleasant. I expected it to be much more dull. But everybody gets on with each other and everyone on the whole is kind and polite. Makes you more motivated to do things for people as you know they would put a lot of effort back into you.


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • 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 much so. I came expecting to hate it but get paid. But now I'm thinking of coming back once I finish my degree to continue working here.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Cummins
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
  • Very good company with lots of opportunities. Well worth looking into.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Automotive Engineering

North East

April 2024


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