City Energy Solutions Project Coordinator Review

The year spent working within a large company as E.ON, has benefited me in ways that I did not expect. Not only I have gained an extensive amount of professional experience, but I have developed and gained many personal traits

Everyone in my team was always willing to lend a hand and there was a perfect balance between a full-time role and a student, which made my experience even more amazing.

Throughout the whole year I had had an incredible support team at work to give me a lot of responsibility and really want to push me, so I can get the best out of the experience.

The diversity of the tasks that I worked on this year never made the job boring and it never made me anxious.

One of the most positive traits of my placement year was my job position and the wide variety of work it entitled. Working within the Project Management Office, I had the opportunity to interact and work on many different tasks with different people.

I am certain that the skills I’ve learned at E. ON will give me an incredible advantage next academic year. Personally, the development that I have seen in myself, even if it was only 11 months, is something I would never been able to get anywhere else.

Everyone in my team was always willing to lend a hand and they were very friendly and supportive.

In the beginning, there were a few issues with IT, apart from that, it was great!

I received a lot of opportunities to show how hard I work and I was given a lot of responsibilities, which was something that I enjoyed. I also received training for a few of my tasks.

If you are an EU/UK citizen, the opportunities are vast such as Graduate Schemes, Apprenticeships etc. However, if you are an international student, it is challenging.

My experience was amazing due to the support of the other undergraduates. We had lunch together everyday and it was great to have someone that you could relate to in terms of the workplace.

Due to the university being in the city centre, Coventry is quite expensive in accommodation. However, if you have a car, you can get a good accommodation further from the centre.

Not very appealing, however Birmingham is in close proximity

Each year at E.ON, there are around 20 or more undergraduate placements, and due to the vast office and site locations, we undergraduates are based in different locations. As part of the undergraduate Scheme at E.ON, HR assists us in organizing around four Community Days throughout the placement year, as a way of interacting with each other and learning more about each other roles. Each Community Day is hosted by different undergraduates, and in November, I volunteered to be one of the hosts. We could tailor the agenda as we wished, but the structure in each of them was basically the same; we played an E.ON themed game, we had a guest speaker from the company and in the end, a team building exercise.