Molecular Biology Technology Frontrunner Review

by De Montfort University

Rating

4.7/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

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

    • Setting up and running PCRs, running gels, and compounding results

    Skills

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

    • Developed my existing skills as well as learnt new ones, increased my general lab competency

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

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • Relatively, was responsible for planning and executing my own experiments and my own tasks.

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

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

    • Quite a lot, if my supervisor was busy there was a second supervisor and lab colleagues to help

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

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Good, always felt supported

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

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

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

    • 5/5

    Your Impressions

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

    • Very much! Best part of my week

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

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

    • 5/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at De Montfort University

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend De Montfort University to a friend?

    • No

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to De Montfort University

    • Work internships were fun and a good initiative

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Research

East Midlands

September 2023

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