Business Resilience Placement Review

Item: Business Resilience Placement at Experian
Rating: 4.7
Author: Anonymous

at Experian

Placement (10 Months+)

Insurance and Risk Management

Nottingham

Review Submitted: June 2023

Overall Rating

4.7 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

5/5 - Overview of Role

4/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Day to day I will
- Work with plan owners across the business to help manage and exercise plans.
- Present and facilitate exercises to response teams to practice invoking business continuity plans.
- Use fusion software to update, create and manage plans across UKI
- Assist in crisis management activities
- Answer questions from clients about our business continuity capabilities
- Question suppliers about their business continuity capabilities
- Response/mitigation planning - identifying potential risks to our people and processes and putting measures in place to prevent impact.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was given lots of responsibility from the beginning of my placement, running projects individually.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

My knowledge around business continuity and risk has substantially increased. I had the opportunity to complete an external course in business continuity and now have a qualification in the subject. Soft skills I have developed include: professionalism, confidence, time management. My project management skills have drastically improved by scheduling and delivering exercise programmes under tight timelines.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

3/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

3/5

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

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

A lot, everyone in my team was so happy to help. I had 121 sessions with my manager multiple times a week for check ups and opportunities to ask questions.