Marketing Assistant Review

Item: Marketing Assistant at Unilever
Rating: 3.2
Author: Anonymous

at Unilever

Placement (10 Months+)

Marketing

London

Review Submitted: June 2024

Overall Rating

3.2 /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!

3/5 - Overview of Role

3.5/5 - Skills Development

3/5 - Support and Guidance

3/5 - Company Culture

3/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

On an everyday basis, I am mostly working with agencies on the creation of assets, reviewing them and sending back feedback where necessary. I might also be organising meetings and preparing powerpoint decks for them.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes a lot, you're given projects to lead that have an impact on the business. It can be stressful and you are thrown in the deep end but there will always be people around to support you.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

3/5

Skills Development

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

I've learnt a lot of new skills but most significantly: communication (especially cross-cultural and cross-functional communication), confidence, critical/ strategic thinking, design.

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?

4/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

4/5

Support and Guidance

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

It depends, I wasn't given a huge amount of support from my manager as they were very busy and so I feel like I didn't necessary learn a lot of hard skills. It sometimes felt like I was just getting all the smaller tasks done to support the team instead of learning on the job.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

3/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

3/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Depends on which part of the business you're in but I really enjoyed the company culture. There was a lot of social activities, almost everyone is really friendly and approachable and there was a general upbeat, exciting energy in my function.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

3/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

4/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

3/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

2/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

If I could rate it out of 10, it would be a 7.5. I enjoyed the placement but my highlights were almost definitely the people and the social parts over the day job itself. I would've liked to have more support for actual on the job learning.