HR Summer Intern Review

by Unilever

Best Student Employer

Rating

3.9/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    3.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • I worked within the supply chain academy team looking at how role plans needed to be updated - I contacted relevant people, had meetings, replied to emails, and summarised my findings in Excel. I launched a communications project for digital upskilling - I had regular meetings, worked on posts, images, banners etc. to help with the campaign


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Improved my excel skills through completing a LinkedIn learning course as well as my confidence


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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
  • 3/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • I wasn't given that much responsibility and often I didn't have that much work to do


  • 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?
  • I got quite a lot of support and guidance from my line manager and the rest of the team, however, as lots of people were on holiday, there was a 3 week period when I didn't really get any


  • 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?
  • Company culture was excellent - everybody was really friendly and welcoming and wanted to help if they could. The general atmosphere within the offices was a friendly, enjoyable working space.


  • 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?
  • I did really enjoy my placement, however, often I didn't have that much work and wasn't really pushed to my full capabilities.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 3/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 2/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Unilever
  • 4/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
  • Make sure you apply to a function you want to do. Keep an open mind about the company and functions as it is a huge company.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Human Resources

London

September 2022


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