Student Placement Year Review

by IBM

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.4/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Attracting students onto the Consulting Associates scheme through events and social media. Responsible for co-ordinating UKI Consulting associate advocates and creating our talent attraction and engagement strategy.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Several - Excel, Premier Pro, Communication/organisation, technical (e.g prompt engineering)


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • Yes - much responsibility which really enabled personal and professional growth.


  • 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?
  • There is lots of support provided - early professionals are dedicated two managers, one foundational (for HR-related) and one task (for day to day work).


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • Very inclusive atmosphere, great innovative and creative company culture


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • 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 thoroughly enjoyed this placement year and would highly recommend it to any student who’s thinking of applying!


  • 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 IBM
  • 2/5

  • 7. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to IBM
  • Go for it! Really think about what makes you stand out and why they should hire you.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Marketing, Management Consulting

London

May 2024


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