Kidswear designer Review
by Matalan
Rating
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Skills
4.3
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
3.8
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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 Matalan
- 7. Would you recommend Matalan to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Matalan
Overview
I completed different tasks to help out team members on various project briefs for Spring/Summer 23. This included doing trend and comp shop research, Shop reports, inspiration boards, print designs, bits of CAD designs, specification sheets, organising Pantone colour books.
Skills
From doing the placement I have learnt new skills in illustrator. As I hadn't really used the software much and the company uses it a lot, it gave me time to explore the programme and start and use it more which was really helpful as I was wanting to use it more with my work but hadn't really had the opportunity to use it as much. I also got in-site into how the company works to get designs ready, from making the prints and doing mock up plans to putting them onto specification sheets that get sent off to the production companies with the requirements of how the product needs to look.
Responsibilities
I was given some tasks that included responsibilities, for example, doing the specification sheets as you had to make sure these had all the correct information for them being sent off to the production companies.
Support & Guidance
I received support from all the team members who were always willing to help out by answering any questions I had and showing me how to do things that I didn't know how to do.
Culture
The company had a very inclusive atmosphere which showed through designs and products they were doing.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement as it gave me a great opportunity to see how the company works and get a feel for what it's like to work for a company and in industry. The team were lovely and amazing to work alongside and gain knowledge from, I would definitely go back.
Yes
You don't need to feel nervous about starting as I was really nervous but everyone was really friendly and made me feel welcomed and I settled in quickly. They were also flexible and try to meet your needs. For example, when there were days when transport strike actions were taking place, they allowed me to work from home and gave me tasks to do which worked around this.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Fashion Design
North West
August 2022
