Fleece & R4R Modern Oral Placement Student Review

by BAT

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Rating

5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • 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.
  • Supporting the delivery of tech-blocks and projects. Assisting on non-project specific tasks too, helping to create the team community feeling. Helping to produce and manufacture samples when required.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Project management skills - communicating with key stakeholders, organising meetings, setting up manufacture process Presentation skills - how to adapt your presentation, appropriately, depending on the audience. An understanding of product specific complex chemistry, formulations and manufacturing processes How to effectively support workstreams / project, and effectively and responsibly providing / receiving feedback. Further developing my ability to communicate in a scientific manner - through scientific plans and reports


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • A very good amount - have been given the opportunity to lead a major workstream, allowing me to make my own decisions, align these decisions with project managers, and receive and provide constructive and adaptable feedback, to continue to drive the workstream. Have been able to experience project management, along with efficiently and effectively working around any obstacles / blockers encountered. Additionally, responsible for laboratory equipment and maintenance.


  • 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?
  • Lots of relevant trainings to fully upskill to the product category, processes and ways of working. Continuous support from line manager, mentor and buddy - providing a channel for questions and queries to be asked and answered, as well as support on non-project specific matters. Great support from the placement team - developing soft skills, developing CV, and the visibility to see wider parts of the business, to allow us to experience the full breadth of what BAT has to offer.


  • 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?
  • Truly inclusive culture - fantastic inclusivity initiatives to ensure all employees of all circumstances and backgrounds feel seen and heard. Fantastic applicable company values, which are truly upheld in day to day work, and help shape day to day decision making. Great social opportunities - out of work meals and events Additionally - there isn't a feeling of hierarchy. Everyone, no matter the grade / seniority, is approachable and helpful.


  • 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?
  • Thoroughly enjoyed my placement - I feel like I have massively developed, both from a "softer" skills side and also from a more technical, chemistry relevant perspective. I have felt truly empowered, to help lead workstreams / project, and have felt like I have been trusted to handle making big decisions. I have enjoyed being able to present to all sorts of different people, and being able to show the work that I have done, and continuously receive feedback as to how I can improve.


  • 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 BAT
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BAT
  • Know that no day will be the same - you are constantly given the opportunity to develop both your technical skills and your non-technical, communication skills. You are in a company that has so many different types of work opportunities - whether that be the different product categories, or the different functions (marketing, science and research, finance, brand, legal etc.) Take all opportunities to explore the business


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Chemistry

South East

June 2024


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