Industrial Placement - Business Intelligence and Reporting Analyst Review

Tasks: - Ensure that scheduled code has run correctly and provide reporting support to business where needed. - Project meetings. - Streamlining and maintenance of reports to keep them up to date with business needs. - E-learning Interactions: - SQL development assistance from colleagues. - Project management discussions. Responsibilities: - Support over the reports I developed. - Covering colleagues on leave. - Assisting team mates who are over-loaded. Projects: - Large scale hardware upgrades to ALDI's reporting infrastructure. - Small/medium scale reports that various departments of the business have requested. - Excel support to areas of the business lacking developer know-how.

Soft skills: - communication - presentation - project management - time management - self reflection - work load management Hard skills: - Learnt various software tools eg: SQL Server Management Studio, MicroStrategy, Visual Studio, Excel and others. - SQL programming skills - VBA programming skills

Yes, I was immediately treated as an employee not an intern. Once you are settled into the language of ALDI you are assigned jobs that reflect your current understanding and skill set. You are treated and expected to become the expert in whatever you are doing so that you are able to report back in meetings in front of managers and directors.

Plenty of technical support was provided the team were always happy to help me when I was stuck with anything.

Due to Covid the company culture became for casual and personal when I joined ALDI. Remote working averaged out at 2 days a week as of July 2021. Everyone is an individual and in the office there is a heavy focus on diversity and inclusion.

The immediate responsibility I was given and respect built from that helped me settle in a become very familiar with the business very quickly. Also the independence I was given by my line manager, between projects I was free to think of my own ideas for projects and develop them out with permission and support. My team were all very friendly and happy to help me with any issue at all. There was no toxic nature to my job at all which was great to see.

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Make sure to be yourself in all of the assessment phases. In the group assessment be polite, LISTEN to the other candidates and try build them up where possible. This shows you're present, a good team member and are thinking of more than just yourself. I did not think I spoke particularly well during my assessment but I was very polite to the other candidates and tried to enjoy myself throughout the day. It's a lot easier for people to gel together when you're having a good time, 2 of my group got through for the same job which I believe is quite rare but were both very calm and enjoyed ourselves.