Cyber Security Intern Review
by National Grid
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 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 National Grid
- 7. Would you recommend National Grid to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to National Grid
Overview
Facilitating workshops with product managers and engineers to help define and draft objectives for services. Work on creating a service catalogue to be shared with the wider business
Skills
Learnt better presentation and communication skills. Gained more experience in using Excel and PowerPoint. Gained more team working experience
Responsibilities
Had responsibility when presenting monthly operations to the senior leadership team Had responsibility for creating a service catalogue that would be used by the wider business
Support & Guidance
Had a lot of support. Met daily with line manager, weekly with business coordinator and had a personal buddy to support and answer questions. Also a student quality improvement group to raise any concerns or issues
Culture
Very friendly and helpful culture. Staff would be very helpful when I messaged to ask for help or information and people would go out of their way to help.
Your Impressions
Very much enjoyed the internship. Gained a lot of valuable skills and experience and networked with a vast range of people. The work was very engaging and felt that I was really making a difference to the business
Yes
Try to stand out when applying. Have strong customer experience examples to talk about in interviews. During the assesment day stand out, network with the assessors and contribute a lot in the group activities
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Information Technology, Computer Science
North West
September 2021
