Industrial Placement Student Review
by AstraZeneca
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
3.5
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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 AstraZeneca
- 7. Would you recommend AstraZeneca to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
Overview
Planning and carrying out lab work. Attend meeting to be kept in the loop of project work. Work on presentations to display my data. Carry out data analysis.
Skills
I have learnt many different lab based skills, time management, creation of scientific report, presenting scientific data, understanding scientific data
Responsibilities
Yes, after showing my competence I was given responsibility creating and delivering scientific update presentations to our team. I was also responsible for ordering my own reagents and scheduling and planning my lab work.
Support & Guidance
I was given a baseline of guidance but more was provided if I asked
Culture
The company culture seemed very deadline based, many scientists were busy and stressed a lot of the time. Having to juggle many different aspects of their job. However as I student I didn't face these stresses. There are a few events during the year to provide inter-departmental communication however I feel there was a disconnect between the different teams within my department. Often you only know the details of your team's projects. More should be done to promote communication between teams. And less pressure from managers
Your Impressions
I enjoyed my placement as I was able to learn about many different lab skills
Yes
In the data interpretation interview, stating the obvious will give you marks
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Pharmaceutical, Research, Science
East of England
September 2023
