Commercial Analyst Placement Review
by Centrica
Rating
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Skills
2.8
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Responsibilities
2.0
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Support & Guidance
2.5
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Culture
3.5
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Your Impressions
3.3
- 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 Centrica
- 7. Would you recommend Centrica to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Centrica
Overview
- Staying up to date with development in the energy market, especially with wholesale energy. - Updating weekly deliverables that are sent around the business. - Researching and producing insight pieces in response to questions asked from around the business, e.g. 'what contracts are a different energy supplier providing'. - Engaging with shareholders in meetings and providing them an overview of the energy supply market.
Skills
On the technical side, I developed my PowerBI skills and some VBA, though these were both through my own efforts. I developed my teamwork skills through experience working in a team, and had opportunities to develop my presentation skills as well. Some of these were in my role, and some were through the placement scheme innitiatives.
Responsibilities
Sort of - there were periods where I had lots to do as other people were off work and I was covering for them, but there were also periods where there wasn't much to do and I had to find my own work to do which was frustrating.
Support & Guidance
The placement has a good mentorship scheme were everyone is assigned a mentor - I personally found this useful and had regular meetings with mine to get a better idea as to how to deal with situations that came up.
Culture
Very positive company atmosphere, I should have tried to move around the business more as I was in a small team but the company had a very positive culture. Seemed to care about employees and support was always there when you reached out.
Your Impressions
There were good parts - I had good moments in my role and the wider placement scheme events were enjoyable. However, I should have moved roles early on as at different points there wasn't much responsibility, even after I had tried to make sure there would be.
Yes
If you don't enjoy a role then move early, instead of trying to make it work as you don't want to be stuck.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Business Operations
South East
May 2023
