Digital Intern Review
at L'Oreal
Placement (10 Months+)
Marketing
Hammersmith
Review Submitted: June 2022
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!
5/5
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Overview of Role
4.5/5
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Skills Development
4/5
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Support and Guidance
4.8/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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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.
My role was to lead in the optimisation and reporting for all performance media channels, with a focus on the 7 direct to consumer brands. Across these channels, I would provide support for promotional materials, brief these to activation teams and ensure they set up to achieve optimal performance. In addition, I would conduct weekly reporting to provide insight on performance and takeaways/learnings for future promotional activity.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Yes - from day one! I had a clear set of responsibilities and deliverables. I played a vital role for the direct to consumer brands in supporting performance media, at one point unsupervised. You are not just making coffee or tea. You are empowered by your role and workload to which you have full reign to make your own and excel.
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 learnt many skills at my time with L'Oreal. I have developed my ability to analyse complex data with the use of various analytical platforms, such as Google Analytics & Excel. As a key requirement, i developed these skills both internally and externally on courses at L'Oreal. Working within FMCG made me more commercially aware and enterprising, a skill to help overcome challenges to the business such as the growth of online competitors.
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?
4/5
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
4/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
You are supported well at L'Oreal from a HR point of view and line manager. Everyone is very open to 1:1 conversation and support on work related issues. I would like to see interns be supported more widely with a 'Buddy' from another division.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
4/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
4/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
The company culture was very good! Always open to change and improvement of the way things operate. There is a wide array of groups/committees you can join to meet up and connect with people of shared interest. The office was very energetic, i enjoy speaking with people face to face so when it was busy the office was enjoyable.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I enjoyed my placement for many reasons, i had the opportunity to work across multiple brands, had a great team and could apply my own creativeness to my role. The role met my expectations in that it was a fast pace environment with lots of challenges. As i grew into the role i became a lot more efficient and could bring some ideas to improve ways of working. I would be open to coming back.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at L'Oreal
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend L'Oreal to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to L'Oreal
Be aware of what the organisation is about and what are some of the challenges it faces. When it comes to creating a solution, the interviewer will want to know why you make that decision and what rationale that was based of so bear that in mind for application/assessment centre. Be yourself, express passion, learn about the industry, tell them what you can bring to the business.
