Future Careers Industrial Placement Student Review

Item: Future Careers Industrial Placement Student at Unilever
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at Unilever

Placement (10 Months+)

Human Resources

Leatherhead

Review Submitted: May 2022

Overall Rating

4.9 /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 - Overview of Role

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

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.

I support on the attraction, recruitment and programme management of Unilever's Future Careers programmes including apprentices, placements and graduates. This means that my day to day responsibilities vary based on which part of the recruitment cycle we are in. I am currently helping to onboard all our 2022 new starter Industrial Placement (IP) students and offboarding the 2021 new IP starters.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was given a lot more responsibility than I expected. For example, managing the Future Careers learning development team in their delivery of the learning plan to all Future Careers employees.

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?

Since being on placement I have developed my organisational communication, critic thinking and data literacy skills. The thing that has improved the most throughout my placement has been my confidence in my own capabilities.

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?

5/5

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?

I felt very supported by my Line Manager, team and HR throughout my placement. I had catch-up calls with my whole team twice weekly and a weekly catch-up call with my line manager. Everyone in the organisation is also very friendly and happy to help where they can.

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

5/5

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

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

There is a very open and safe culture. We have several employee networks dedicated to empowering all employees, including disability, gender, race and LGBTQIA+ networks. There is a community and wellbeing team dedicated to planning social networking events for our future careers employees.