Business Management Summer Placement Review

by Centrica

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Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Having meetings and interviews with Stakeholders and team members and then conducting research and doing analysis in order to produce a report which provides recommendations based on a problem statement


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Teamwork, Excel, Presentation, Negotiating, Leadership, Communication, Remote Learning Skills


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • 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 the project was completely our own and we were allowed to take it however we wanted. We were exposed to extremely senior members of the business and supported from the ground up


  • 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?
  • We had access to our own grad supports, a stream specific mentor and then the grad team as well as all the stakeholders we spoke to and each other so it was quite comprehensive


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • Diverse, Inclusive, passionate, caring, warm and supporting


  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I had the best time and would love to do it all again


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

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Centrica
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Centrica
  • Be yourself, do your research and be passionate about helping people


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Customer Service

North East

August 2021


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