Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Extensive use of ArcGIS to identify NFM opportunities across river catchments, quality assurance, creation and exporting of drawing plans. Supporting PMs on invoicing and change event management.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Software skills on ArcGIS, FME and vehicle tracking in Civil3D


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • 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, oftentimes I had to liaise with colleagues to find about information relating to my work that is tied to certain time constraints.


  • 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?
  • Extensive support by managers who checked in with me on an almost regular day-to-day basis.


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

  • 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?
  • Arup provides a very welcoming and supportive environment to work in. All coworkers are there to help and answer any questions I had. I knew who to turn to.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Very much, I returned to a team I already knew from my YiI. I didn't get to work in depth and in detail on projects give the short time nature of the placement however I got a diversity of work and project experience-I went on a sit, I was supported to visit the London and Bristol offices to meet the rest of the team.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

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

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

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Arup
  • Be patient with the application procedure. Demonstrate ylu are a person that could be relied on.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Civil Engineering

South West

August 2022


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