Purchasing Placement Student Review
by Cummins
Rating
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Skills
3.8
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Responsibilities
2.0
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Support & Guidance
3.5
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Culture
4.8
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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 Cummins
- 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Overview
Involved with supplier negotiations, supplier performance reviews, pricing strategy, data management, leading meetings, aiding projects.
Skills
Confidence Data Analysis Excel PowerBI Collaboration Problem Solving Negotiating Stakeholder Management Team leading Data Presentation
Responsibilities
It varied. I had many responsibilities that I carried out regularly, however there didn’t seem to be much pressure or weight on the importance of them. Often work we received was admin related task to aid the higher ups, as opposed to the interesting projects that managers and the wider team were involved in.
Support & Guidance
Lots of support, had direct line managers as a first contact, however they were overseas so never met them so was hard to develop a connection and get strong experience. Had a supervisor who was local who became the main contact and did the most to try and get more interesting work and involvement in key tasks.
Culture
Company culture was amazing! Very friendly and supportive atmosphere. Everyone knows each other on a personal level so it creates a warm energy. Everybody is up for a chat and always offering themselves to support you or giving you new responsibilities.
Your Impressions
I did enjoy my placement. I massively developed my soft transferable skills more than the hard industry relevant skills from the role, but I met lots of new people and gained experience of an industry I was very unfamiliar with. I would definitely go back if an opportunity presented itself as I believe signing on as a graduate allows you to be involved in more important work.
Yes
The process is relatively simple. Just be yourself and genuine. If this comes across they are more worried about personality and your fit into the team over credentials.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Purchasing and Supply
North East
November 2024
