Year in Industry Student Review

by Via East Midlands

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Helping signals team with traffic signal maintenance. Completed design of refurbishments jobs. Implementation of Intelligent transport system.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Technical skills and knowledge of intelligent transport systems and programming on a central system. Problem solving and professional documentation. Communication, team work and work load management

  • 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?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • I was given responsibility to carry out refurbishment jobs of existing projects. I was also given the duty of implementing and documenting the roll out of intelligent transport systems.

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • I was given a work buddy and guidance/support from a lot of people.

  • 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?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very relaxed and friendly. Fun to work in.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 2/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 4/5
  • 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 was happy with it. Got an insight into the industry and enjoyed my experience.

  • 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 Via East Midlands

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Via East Midlands to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Via East Midlands

    • N/A

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Civil Engineering

East Midlands

August 2022

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