Contour Showcasing and Outreach Support Intern Review

by De Montfort University

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • 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.

    • Gathering the work from students in the Contour department and creating social media posts/videos to help promote the Universit course. Create posters and hand-outs fro open days. Research into how to best promote the course, as well as setting up and being apart of open days.

    Skills

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

    • Social media managering and social skills have increased due to the creation of posts, and talking with upcoming students/parents during open days. Leadership skills have developed by taking charge of promotion of the Contour course, as well as featuring in a video promoting for DMU's Twitter account.

  • 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?

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 5/5

    Responsibilities

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

    • I was given a vast amount of responsibility due to the role I played for our social media. As well as speaking and acting as a model student dueing open days. I also gave a presentation the four year groups for social media content creating, with the leacturers having no role within this.

  • 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?

    • The lecturers were there at any point to help, however this internship was very independant and so there wasn't as mcuh support needed throughout.

  • 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?

    • 4/5

    Culture

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

    • DMU has a range of students from, not only across the UK, but across the world, and so it was nice to see that array of students and staff on a daily basis.

  • 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?

    • I really enjoyed this placement. Being such an important role within my subject at my Uni gave me so much responsibility and I felt like I made a difference.

  • 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?

    • Yes

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

    • Try not to over-work yourself. During my time here, I had two other jobs, as well as a MA to complete and so I felt quite drained a lot of the times.

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Social Media Marketing

East Midlands

September 2023

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