Indirect Buying Placement Student Review
by Cummins
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.5
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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 Cummins
- 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Overview
Day to day activities include engaging with stakeholders about possible internal orders within the value of 20-100k. Using powerpoint and excel to aid the data analysts. The main goal of the team is to try and save the company money so another part of the day is finding multiple suppliers for an ongoing project.
Skills
My overall level of the understanding of how a business works internally has grown as well as the extended knowledge about procurement. Within my time I have completed my Certified Procurement Professional which Cummins helped me to do. My excel knowledge has advanced massively since the start of my time at Cummins which has been because of the team support and using it everyday as well as internal training courses provided.
Responsibilities
I was given responsibility of looking after my own projects after following the work of team members which was exciting and a great learning experience. I have been able to connect with stakeholders all over Cummins and this had given me a broad knowledge of procurement as well as project management.
Support & Guidance
I was given lots of support within my role with 1:1 meetings with my manager weekly and a team meetings everyday, in which we discussed projects. If I ever needed any support, help was always given either by the team or by management.
Culture
The company culture was fantastic. Everyone not just the team I was in was friendly. All employees that I had met personally had the mindset of great teamwork, fairness, equality and diversity. Everyone that I worked with on projects had great communication and was a helping hand especially when I first started, as it is always daunting being a new placement student. All fears went away very quickly with such a fantastic working culture.
Your Impressions
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement year, so much so I am staying on part time whilst I complete my degree.
Yes
The advice I would give to people applying to Cummins is to just be yourself as Cummins values as this is encouraged at Cummins. Doing so creates a more authentic workplace for you and your team.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Purchasing and Supply
North East
May 2023
