Industrial Placement Student HR Review

On a daily basis I will handle the admin for learning signups across the UKI, as well as manage 3 email accounts (my own, my FC teams and the UKI Learning teams). I will also assist with projects around attraction of graduates, placement students and apprentices. Lastly, I will help onboard the previous three categories when they join us. I can expect to take many calls throughout a normal working day.

Yes I was given a tremendous amount of responsibility. I was told this would be the case before joining. I also worked across two teams and so I knew I’d have a larger workload than if I didn’t. I was trusted to lead on projects myself and carry out tasks at times without even feeding back to a line manger. I certainly wasn’t making teas and coffees

I developed my skills in Microsoft office proficiently. Particularly excel, which is so useful to modern working, I can do things on there that I did not even know existed prior to my placement. Secondly, my time management and organisation has vastly improved, through the use of outlook and keeping an orderly notepad / to do list.

I think the support and guidance I received was okay. I think at the start of my placement I did receive a lot because I was new and people expect you need that training. As things went on however I do think my training lessened as I was expected to perform independently, which is fine to a point. However, I do believe my line manager could’ve done more to support nearer the end.

I think the overall company culture around sustainability and forward thinking work is good on the surface for such a large company. However, I think once you delve into the company there is a cultural issue around working hours. Line managers will tell you not to work beyond 5, until they need something from you and then this will be abandoned to get this done.

My placement enjoyment was sort of split. I did enjoy the first 7/8 months as I am learning and taking on responsibility. However, I feel in my last 5 months I had a large workload which did not allow me to go beyond just getting the job done and I was criticised for not excelling, however felt incapable of doing so. This really frustrated me and made me go into my shell.

Yes