Business Management Summer Placement Review

Item: Business Management Summer Placement at Centrica
Rating: 4.6
Author: Anonymous

at Centrica

Internship (1 Month+)

Customer Service

Newcastle

Review Submitted: August 2021

Overall Rating

4.6 /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!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.5/5 - Company Culture

4.5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

Having meetings and interviews with Stakeholders and team members and then conducting research and doing analysis in order to produce a report which provides recommendations based on a problem statement

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes the project was completely our own and we were allowed to take it however we wanted. We were exposed to extremely senior members of the business and supported from the ground up

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?

Teamwork, Excel, Presentation, Negotiating, Leadership, Communication, Remote Learning Skills

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

5/5

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?

We had access to our own grad supports, a stream specific mentor and then the grad team as well as all the stakeholders we spoke to and each other so it was quite comprehensive