Industrial Placement Student Review
by GSK
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
3.5
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
3.7
- 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
25:75 split of lab work to admin/experiment planning/experiment write ups/meetings. Focused on my own project while assisting my supervisor with their pipeline projects
Skills
• Presenting • Collaborating • Time management • Project management • Communication • Lab write up • Report writing • Literature review writing • Journal clubs • Outsourcing requests • Confidentiality of work • glp -gmp -molecular biology -lab write ups -statistics -IP -data integrity
Responsibilities
responsibility of my own technology development work, but not of pipeline project work
Support & Guidance
As much as i wanted
Culture
Very progressive, inclusive and trying to do better and constantly evolve
Your Impressions
It was great and really valuable; showed me corporate industry is not for me but that's also very valuable.
Yes
They're ready and keen to develop you as a person, so it doesn't matter what you don't know but more that you're a very open person who is willing to learn.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Research, Science
South East
April 2023
