Social Researcher Review
at Government Social Research
Placement (10 Months+)
Research
Manchester
Review Submitted: October 2023
Overall Rating
4.3 /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!
4/5
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Overview of Role
4.5/5
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Skills Development
4.5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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Company Culture
3/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
A cycle of collating data for each quarter of the Participation Survey and publishing it. Quality Assuring the publication documents. Attending team meetings to keep track of progress and any hurdles the team is facing.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
I was given some responsibility towards the middle-end of my placement. For example, leading some quarterly publications myself and managing the teams time around this. As well as leading on a roadshows project after our annual publication in order to share the findings to our stakeholders and respective policy teams.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
4/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Developed professional report writing and putting together summary documents for ministers. Learnt how to code visualisations on R. Progressed further my oral communication and online speaking due to the role being hybrid. Developed leadership skills when leading on publications myself.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
4/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
4/5
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?
I reveries great support during my placement. Whether that was from my line manager with any questions I had or the wider team and seniors. Colleagues were super approachable if there was any concerns or queries.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
4/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Unfortunately being the only person from my team based in the North West, the office’a atmosphere wasn’t the most thrilling. I didn’t know that many people around me and everyone was part of either different teams of departments I had no relation to. However when meeting my team down in London the culture was friendly, inclusive and supportive.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
3/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I enjoyed receiving the valuable experience my placement provided and the vast government knowledge. Although looking at the social side and relationship building, I think that is something I missed out on and hope it improves for the next placement students.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
3/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
3/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Government Social Research
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Government Social Research to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Government Social Research
Push yourself into projects you would like to be involved in. If there’s an area you’d like experience in talk to your Line manager and reach that experience yourself. There’s many avenues you can go down in civil service so I would definitely recommend to get as much experience from different ones as you can.
