HR/HSE Placement Student Review
at Forvia
Placement (10 Months+)
Human Resources, Environmental Science
Fradley
Review Submitted: July 2024
Overall Rating
3.6 /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!
5/5
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Overview of Role
4.3/5
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Skills Development
3/5
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Support and Guidance
2.8/5
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Company Culture
4/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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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.
Focus on daily reporting, managing headcount and recruitment as well as focusing on payroll. Managing plant communications, this can include the creativity for newsletter, company councils and any other engagement schemes. Hosting employee engagement events for all members of staff on site. For HSE aspect, working with different departments and companies, keeping standards of mandatory PPE, ensuring audits are completed and maintained (e,g FM Global/Iso), managing deadlines as well as waste management.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
I was offered the responsibility to run five separate audits, all within different weeks, this was a very fast paced time. As well as being in charge of managing the workwear and the PPE of all employees on the plant
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?
I have developed my time management skills through meeting deadlines and completing work of necessary standards.
I have learnt to take accountability, through running audits solo and being able to ensure everyone in the plant is aware of the standard of HSE needed.
I have developed my confidence, with the ability to tackle different personalities if I am challenged in difficult situations
I have learnt to take accountability, through running audits solo and being able to ensure everyone in the plant is aware of the standard of HSE needed.
I have developed my confidence, with the ability to tackle different personalities if I am challenged in difficult situations
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?
4/5
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?
At first it seems that there are people who are keen to ensure your development, however at times there seems to be a sort of standard that some people believe you should have already achieved before starting your role.
However through the year it seems that there is a lot of support integrated at different times
However through the year it seems that there is a lot of support integrated at different times
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?
FCM is the smaller site so it was definitely more personal and took me by surprise how much I loved it. I truly enjoyed the sense of teamwork between different departments. However it seems that if you go into HR, everyone seems to have a ‘bee in their bonnet’ so to speak and seem to think the department is always against them, so that was quite a difficult nature to balance out
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
1/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
3/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
3/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I did enjoy my placement based at FCM, i believe that the people really made a difference for the job. If at FCM, you have to be ready to be very few students and be ready to work with people of more experience
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
4/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Forvia
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Forvia to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Forvia
Do not let people stop you from learning, be a sponge and soak in as much from different departments as possible because time flies even when you dont think it will.
