Global Environmental Sustainability IP Review
by GSK
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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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 GSK
- 7. Would you recommend GSK to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to GSK
Overview
Whilst at GSK I was an industrial placement student in the central sustainability team, which had recently changed its name from the Centre of Excellence sustainability team. This department is part of the pharma (Rx) business unit, although the role involved communicating and working with all three business units. As a central sustainability team IP, I was involved in the movement to get GSK on target to reach its sustainability 2030 goals in carbon, water, climate and biodiversity. There are two IP’s in the department (including myself) focusing on different sustainability areas depending on our managers specialisations. I primarily worked on waste and water projects whereas the other IP student focused on eco design and sourcing for biodiversity. Through my role I lead projects, had meetings with external organisations to form partnerships and develop mitigatory projects as well as analyse GSK’s data to identify gaps and ways to improve data collection on a global level and at the level of the three separate business units.
Skills
Working within a team of likeminded, passionate individuals who work very hard to help the company achieve their sustainability goals is something I’m very lucky to have been a part of and the team’s friendliness has really allowed me to be myself and thrive in the working environment. Since communication skills are key for this job role, I was constantly challenged with presenting to large audiences, those of high positions and conversing with external companies. This developed my confidence in public speaking and vocalising my opinion even when it challenged other opinions, as viewing things from a different perspective often resulted in good discussion. My technical skills have massively increased since most of my placement involved working from home. I use Microsoft excel, word, PowerPoint, and teams every day of the week and have taught myself how to use new software such as PowerBi as well as GSK specific database software.
Responsibilities
Yes, I was often in charge of leading projects or co-managing.
Support & Guidance
I completed an extensive amount of online training and my manager was always there to answer any further questions I had.
Culture
Very welcoming and patient
Your Impressions
I loved it - highly recommend!
Yes
Be yourself in your application :)
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Science, Environmental Science
South East
June 2022
