GES Sandwich Student Review

by Government Economic Service

Rating

3.6/5
  • Skills
    3.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    3.3
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Keeping up to date on economics and world news, thinking about how this could impact consumer prices, house prices or business prices. Led on production of a monthly dataset. Would contribute to monthly inflation bulletins and quarterly economic analysis publications.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Developed my writing and presenting skills as well as improving my organisation and multi-tasking. Learnt new excel skills.

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • 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

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • I believe I was given a fair and appropriate amount of responsibility

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Sufficient.

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 4/5
  • 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?

    • Friendly and not intimidating. But hard to develop working relationships as placement was completely virtual.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 2/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • Very. Decided to come back on a permanent basis after graduating.

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 5/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Government Economic Service

    • 2/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Government Economic Service to a friend?

    • No

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Government Economic Service

    • Be prepared that the work you may do may not be appropriate for an economist. Enjoyment in the organisation depends heavily on the role you are given. Some are great, others are very dull. Again also dependent on teams and managers. Lack of in-person office environment can mean the organisation lacks community.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Economics

Wales

June 2023

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