Formulation/Materials Technician Review
by Unilever
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 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 Unilever
- 7. Would you recommend Unilever to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Unilever
Overview
blend of meetings, desk work and practical work. Practical work can include ice cream processing, lab measurements like rheology, droplet size and meltdown of ice cream, chopping up ice cream for tasting sessions, making ice cream mixes small scale, preparing samples of flavours to ship. Desk work may include contacting suppliers or different teams, organising practical work, analysing data.
Skills
Yep, beyond being trained on the equipment, I have developed my organisational skills, learnt to better communicate details effectively, present myself professionally to new people.
Responsibilities
Much more than I had expected. My team has quite a democratic structure so there are no stupid questions and people, not just your direct managers, are supportive of the work that you would like to do and happy to signpost you to people with different sorts of tasks to take on
Support & Guidance
Well 2 months in my original manager left for another job and I was being managed by his manager who was much less available with so much on his plate at the time. He was very supportive and a genuine fella but has little time to give support outside of our weekly catchups
Culture
Good work/life balance. Casual dress, many sport clubs on site, regular optional activities to do as a team. I once mentioned that I opened my laptop outside of working hours and somebody said you shouldn't have to do that and asked if I needed any support.
Your Impressions
One thing that does bother me is a lot of my time is spent freezing ice cream with different flavours dosed in and that's really boring and repetitive after a while but it needs doing. No it's good though in general. There's also a close-knit community of IPs and apprentices who do all social events
Yes
Definitely go to either Nottingham or Bath university. They have relationships with those unis so you don't have to go through the assessment centre. Also just talk to people. Colworth is a nice site where people like to help each other generally so make good impressions with people and you'll never be stuck on your own. Ask questions too.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Research
South East
May 2024
