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Career Ambassador Review

at De Montfort University

Internship (1 Month+)

Marketing, Recruitment

Leicester

Review Submitted: October 2025

Overall Rating

4.7 /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
5/5 - Support and Guidance
4.8/5 - 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.
🔹 Supported students with CVs, interviews, and job applications through one-to-one guidance and peer mentoring
🔹 Promote events and services across campus, ranges from social media and cold calling promotions
🔹 Collect and present student feedback to the Careers Team and senior staff, offering solutions to improve engagement
🔹 Utilising state of the art tools like VR headsets and online psychometric testings to support students with immersive interview/ recruitment experience
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
There were definietly a few responsibilities that fell on to us at an ad hoc basis. It could involve getting into marketing porposes to assisting on events that involved employers.
That being said, our core focus is and always has been to ensure that every sutdent who seek for help career assistance would awlasy have full support from us at every engle (i.e cv advice, interview preps, job applications, experience building, etc)
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?
Too many to count.. some of the most important ones involved confidence, interpersonal and professional etiquette.
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?
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?
As long as I asked. Never once have I felt that it was a bad time to ask questions. The staff and teams that I worked with in the careers team were always open to new ideas and questions.
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?
Very inviting and accomodating to your personal issues and or preferences. Never thought for once I was not included.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
5/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I enjoyed it a lot as I got to not only boost my own knowledge on the job market, but also had so many opporutnties to grow my other skills (i.e. social media marketing and running sessions).
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
4/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend De Montfort University to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to De Montfort University
If you're into marketing and are looking for opportunities to grow your employability rate, come to DMU. The services that are actively there to support students are unlike any other universities.

Future Career Prospects

Please rate the future employment prospects at De Montfort University
5/5
Did you receive an offer to return as a graduate?
No
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