Marketing intern Review
at L'Oreal
Placement (10 Months+)
Marketing
london
Review Submitted: July 2024
Overall Rating
2.6 /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
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Overview of Role
2.5/5
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Skills Development
2/5
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Support and Guidance
3/5
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Company Culture
3/5
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Overall Experience
1/5
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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.
Day-to-day you may be:
-Competitor / data analysis: pricing and market awareness/tracking
-Manual data entry.
Managing projects; including adaptation of international product concepts/advertising to the UK sent from Global.
-Budgeting; forecasting costs accurately, tracking spend and ability to save costs where appropriate.
-Data analysis; extracting the correct data for analysis, and ability to interpret and relay the data. Critically analyse the data and spot when the dashboards are incorrect.
-"Creative"(verry limited) strategy; manage campaigns with both clear strategic and innovative input.
-Designing(with many layers of approval); briefing artwork agencies on designs for point of sale materials and supporting the process through design and print until the materials reach the retailer
-Competitor / data analysis: pricing and market awareness/tracking
-Manual data entry.
Managing projects; including adaptation of international product concepts/advertising to the UK sent from Global.
-Budgeting; forecasting costs accurately, tracking spend and ability to save costs where appropriate.
-Data analysis; extracting the correct data for analysis, and ability to interpret and relay the data. Critically analyse the data and spot when the dashboards are incorrect.
-"Creative"(verry limited) strategy; manage campaigns with both clear strategic and innovative input.
-Designing(with many layers of approval); briefing artwork agencies on designs for point of sale materials and supporting the process through design and print until the materials reach the retailer
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Yes, Interns run the company.
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?
Yes:
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
-written communication.
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
-written communication.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
1/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
1/5
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?
Extremly limited, Learning's are available however they are not role specific. Even though they make an insane amount of money form churning out 150 interns every 12 months, although not explicitly said, Interns are expected to know or "Google It" with 4 day handover where half of it is spent in "Training" which is essential Cooperate propaganda about LO'real.
However the positive is that experiencing that makes you fell like you can survive any-where .It also taches you how to navigate the cooperate environment and bad managers.
However the positive is that experiencing that makes you fell like you can survive any-where .It also taches you how to navigate the cooperate environment and bad managers.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
1/5
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?
Good but depends on the division.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
1/5
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?
4/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
Great experience and growth.
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 L'Oreal
1/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend L'Oreal to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to L'Oreal
Be intentional about what you want when complaining the assent centre ie if you want to be in Marketing, dont talk as much about Visual Merchandising or digital . and this is more of a data role than you think.
They only take 12 out of the150 interns for the grad scheme, 3 for Marketing/Digital Grad, 3 for Supply-Chain Grad, 3 for Commercial and 3 for Business Devlopment Planning Grad. The rest External.
You can only apply for that or Talent track, Not both. Talent-track is where they treat you like an internal candidate when new roles become available but they only keep you on that for 2 years.
So keep that in mind when applying.
They only take 12 out of the150 interns for the grad scheme, 3 for Marketing/Digital Grad, 3 for Supply-Chain Grad, 3 for Commercial and 3 for Business Devlopment Planning Grad. The rest External.
You can only apply for that or Talent track, Not both. Talent-track is where they treat you like an internal candidate when new roles become available but they only keep you on that for 2 years.
So keep that in mind when applying.
