Rating
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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 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
Lots of variation dependent on which projects are being worked on. Tasks distributed/updated on Mondays with the team and then given freedom to work on and take responsibility as you want. Day to day tasks generally focus on market research for different brands using a variety of techniques.
Skills
Learnt a number of new skills while further developing pre-existing ones particularly regarding statistical analyses with SPSS, Minitab, JMP, R, Python and Excel.
Responsibilities
Plenty of responsibility both over individual tasks but also the team is more than prepared to give more responsibility when asked for, in both ongoing projects and separate tasks. The whole team remained very open to giving and working with placement students as full employees and giving responsibility accordingly.
Support & Guidance
A full month of training before starting work properly to ensure you felt confident in your role. Very friendly and supportive environment with everyone willing to help or at least point you in the direction of help if needed.
Culture
Very friendly, open and eager to help get new starters settled and integrated into the team.
Your Impressions
A fantastic experience. Having heard friends from university appear to not enjoy their placement year so much, can safely say its been a fantastic experience and have loved every minute of it and could not recommend it enough.
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Practice interview technique with your careers team at university beforehand. Otherwise be sure to submit a clear CV which highlights your existing skills and any relevant experience. You are not expected to have work experience but anything such as societies etc always helps. Also worth considering extracurriculars, nice to see who you are outside of a working environment, helping to humanise you to the recruiter.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Market Research
Yorkshire and Humberside
May 2024