Power Academy Scholar Review

It was ok. Most of the time towards the end it was good and I had lots of work to do but at the start it took a very long time to get going and there were a lot of technical problems with HR and computer issues etc.

I was put in a team with people who were always happy to help. My manger assigned me a member of his team as a contact point and he was very helpful and keen to make sure things were ok. I also had a buddy assigned to me as part of the power academy program who was also delighted to help. The rest of the power academy scholars were also great to work with.

As stated in the last comment :: My manger assigned me a member of his team as a contact point and he was very helpful and keen to make sure things were ok. This was very useful and meant that I always knew where to find help. My manager had regular meetings with me to make sure I remained on track and was doing useful work.

I found myself to be both bored and too busy. I had very little to do for the first 2/3 weeks and as a result far too much to do at the end. This was the fault of the people in charge of getting us laptops as mine didn't work properly and I could not log in and then couldn't access software at the start of my placement.

I was given some responsibility, but ultimately I was writing a report which would be read over by management before going anywhere else. So not really that much.

I learned a lot during my placement. I had a lot of problems to solve. I learned new computer skills. I learned about working in an office and working with different teams. I had to study technical power engineering that I had not covered at uni yet. I improved my presentation and report writing skills. I developed a network of useful contacts.

I was sitting with the power academy students who were quite chatty. We had a lot of work to do though, so sometimes this was actually a bit annoying so I went to a quite room to work on my project.

My project was changed 3 times and my laptop didn't work. I had problems with software too. I think this is because there were 30 (approx) placement students and they tried to organise it all at once and left it too late. I had a worse experience than the others and mostly everyone else's laptops worked.

I feel the company spent a lot of time and money by having me there. They were happy to help and provided a lot of opportunities whenever they were able to, to help us develop.

As a company, very appealing. I think they are a great company to work for. The only reason I would leave is if I decided that power engineering wasn't for me. I am still young and want to explore many options before setting my career path in stone!

Excellent. Nights out, parties and dinners happened regularly. I lived with 5 other placement students, 6 more lived round the corner and 4 more lived round the other corner. The socialising between the students was excellent.

We got an excellent deal on rent with our landlord. £50 a week including bills. The local area was very nice. Prices were pretty similar to what I am used to in Glasgow - which is good. The lads from London couldn't believe how cheap it was. There was a large shopping place with every shop you could ever need right beside our house. As well as 2 local shops actually on our street! Everywhere was good value for money. *Talking about Leamington Spa

Good, But as Warwick uni was done for the summer the clubs and bars weren't as busy as they otherwise would have been. Despite this however the local bars were usually quite full and it was easy to find a group of people to have a night out with!

There were some opportunities. We tended to arrange our own things to do such as paint balling and go karting and socialising. There was a networking event organised by National Grid which was good fun. I'm not really sure what this question means, is it about work related or not? If not, there were various clubs (tae kwon do, snooker, MMA, etc) in the surrounding area and classes to join! There was a big shopping centre with a bowling alley too! Lovely place.