Criminal Investigator Review

Item: Criminal Investigator at Department for Work and Pensions
Rating: 2.1
Author: Anonymous

at Department for Work and Pensions

Insight Day

Cardiff / Caerdydd

Review Submitted: February 2025

Overall Rating

2.1 /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!

1.6/5 - Overview of the Experience

1/5 - Skills Development

2/5 - Company Culture

Overview of the Experience

Please give an overview of what your virtual experience involved:

1/5

Tiresome and dragging on. Its not a recognised qualification with month after month of assignments and additional tasks to do. Feels a waste of time

To what extent did you enjoy your virtual experience?

3/5

Good colleagues and tuturs around me.

How well organised was your virtual experience?

2/5

I've travelled to Warrington and Dudley, had to leave on the weekends to get to events and also events the day after a bank holiday. Not very well planned out I feel.

How much did your virtual experience help you in deciding on your future career path?

1/5

Pushed me backwards so far and questioned my choices.

Were you paid or reimbursed for this experience?

1/5

yes

Skills Development

What training and skills development did you learn from your virtual experience?

1/5

Lots and Lots of powerpoint slides delivered. Sometimes 100+.... I've learnt that this style of delivery doesn't suit my 'learning style' as previously explored prior to the apprenticeship.

Company Culture

How much did you learn about the company culture and what it would be like to work there?

2/5

n/a

Were there opportunities for networking and meeting other employees?

2/5

yes other colleagues fro other sites.

Recommendations and Advice

Would you recommend Department for Work and Pensions to a friend?

Why?

The job advert is nothing like the job; it reads a to more 'high end'. I came specifically to get pre-sentence experience and a recognised qualification and I am not looking likely to achieve this in this arena unfortunately.