Marketing Assistant Review
by Unilever
Rating
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Skills
3.5
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
3.0
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Culture
3.0
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Your Impressions
3.3
- 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
On an everyday basis, I am mostly working with agencies on the creation of assets, reviewing them and sending back feedback where necessary. I might also be organising meetings and preparing powerpoint decks for them.
Skills
I've learnt a lot of new skills but most significantly: communication (especially cross-cultural and cross-functional communication), confidence, critical/ strategic thinking, design.
Responsibilities
Yes a lot, you're given projects to lead that have an impact on the business. It can be stressful and you are thrown in the deep end but there will always be people around to support you.
Support & Guidance
It depends, I wasn't given a huge amount of support from my manager as they were very busy and so I feel like I didn't necessary learn a lot of hard skills. It sometimes felt like I was just getting all the smaller tasks done to support the team instead of learning on the job.
Culture
Depends on which part of the business you're in but I really enjoyed the company culture. There was a lot of social activities, almost everyone is really friendly and approachable and there was a general upbeat, exciting energy in my function.
Your Impressions
If I could rate it out of 10, it would be a 7.5. I enjoyed the placement but my highlights were almost definitely the people and the social parts over the day job itself. I would've liked to have more support for actual on the job learning.
Yes
Try to demonstrate your strategic thinking, problem solving and curiousity. I'd say those are some of the most important skills/ traits for Unilever.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Marketing
London
June 2024
