IndustrialTrainee Review

Item: IndustrialTrainee at Arup
Rating: 4
Author: Anonymous

at Arup

Placement (10 Months+)

Civil Engineering

Cardiff

Review Submitted: August 2021

Overall Rating

4 /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

3.5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

3.5/5 - 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.

Taking tasks from senior engineers ranging from investigative work around exising structures, using equations and softwares to assess their current capability, through to designing new structures, drains etc that need to be built to a required specification.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

So Far yes.
I am currently running a project while both managers are away, doing what i can without Approving documents. Liaising with other contacts and finding unique solutions to problems.

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?

Absolutely.
new softwares, new techniques for solving problems.

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?

2/5

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?

Everyone has been super friendly and helpful.
The only thing I can say that is bad is, sometimes people take a while to respond, but theyre all busy so its not a problem.