Industrial placement Student Review
by GSK
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
3.0
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Culture
1.5
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Your Impressions
2.3
- 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 GSK
- 7. Would you recommend GSK to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to GSK
Overview
Lots of lab work, data analysis on days working from home. My project itself was more technology development led but got experience in using liquid handlers and cell culture.
Skills
Developed many lab skills - cell culture, dilutions, using new equipment (liquid handlers), planning experiments myself with more of an idea of why I was carrying out experiments. Learning how best to write my experiments (electronic lab recording) and best practice for recording data (integrity wise).
Responsibilities
Yes, once training occurred (not as much as usual due to lab occupancy limits due to covid19) I was doing cell culture and looked after other people's cells. Responsibility to be in charge of research for my IP project/sorting out ordering reagents/following manufacturers protocols with guidance when necessary but emphasis on independence.
Support & Guidance
Support when required, weekly 1:1s especially when working from home. Support when asking for help but also encouraged to be independent. Support was a little more limited when people were busy but still enough to allow development/learning opportunities. Lots of guidance with experiment planning and with any help/support in re to the pandemic and changes in lab time/work from home.
Culture
Hard to experience with covid when office was empty as people went home after doing lab work/didn't interact with anyone outside immediate team and even in immediate team I rarely saw them in person. An effort was made to organize virtual coffee chats which was good but it still felt isolating due to covid19 so is hard to comment on normal atmosphere.
Your Impressions
Enjoyed the skills I learnt and when I was allowed into the lab, was just a shame they didn't set testing etc up earlier and that placement students weren't able to come in a lot due to prioritization of permanent staff (as expected). However, I have enjoyed the lab time and immediate colleagues I worked with were supportive.
Yes
Be honest, if you don't know all the answers. Make sure you have researched the company but also show an interest in what you are applying for. They aren't expecting you to know everything but to take an interest.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Science
East of England
June 2021
