Procurement intern Review
by Centrica
Rating
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Skills
3.8
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
3.0
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Your Impressions
3.7
- 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 Centrica
- 7. Would you recommend Centrica to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Centrica
Overview
I worked on a few different projects to help the business unit's better inform the rest of the business on their activity. This involved meetings with different people, using excel a lot and some market research.
Skills
I developed my technical skills on excel and other online platforms. I have also developed my professional communication skills through being in office most days and navigating the professional yet friendly relationships. I have also continued to develop my strategic thinking to help make decisions on the suppliers we should be working with
Responsibilities
my responsibility changed over the internship dependent on the tasks I was working on. I didn't always have tasks to work on however once I did, I was left to run the task independently with support if I needed it.
Support & Guidance
My manager was incredibly supportive if I asked for help, and we had a conversation in the beginning about how I work best and that I would like to work independently first on a problem. I think we could have received more stream specific guidance within the first week to help us learn the stream specific skills quicker e.g. the different applications we were using in procurement took a while for us to be introduced to.
Culture
Very supportive. procurement is a very close whole team and everyone was happy to help. the wider atmosphere was nice, but sometimes felt like we were seen as the interns that had been released into the office rather than colleagues.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed it a lot. My fellow interns really made the experience what it was.
Yes
Be aware that everyone is busy and it is up to you to make sure your experience is what you need it to be. Not everyone is going to be there to give you opportunities so you need to be happy to ask for work or meetings if your not learning what you wanted to.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Procurement
London
August 2024
