Placement Student Review
by Government Economic Service
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.0
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 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 Government Economic Service
- 7. Would you recommend Government Economic Service to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Government Economic Service
Overview
Keeping up to date on economic stories and trends. Working in statistical production and quality assuring data.
Skills
Definitely gained stronger excel knowledge and well as plenty of opportunities to develop presentation skills and good written communication.
Responsibilities
a lot of independence and ability to choice what work suited me.
Support & Guidance
Strong placement scheme with a large cohort every year with a placement student network team set up to provide support
Culture
good flexible working hours and reward scheme, most people remotely work so lacks office atmosphere.
Your Impressions
Very good learning experience a lot gained from it, placement scheme run and set up very well with plenty of support and opportunities offered to placement students.
Yes
required strong basic economic knowledge and keep up to data with the news
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Economics
Wales
June 2023
