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!
5/5
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Overview of Role
4.8/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.3/5
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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.
Learn and provide insight on Submarine Power Cables, particularly electrical elements. Understand how wind farm works. Develop modelling tool from scratch and analyse and recommend on future best practice for wind farm
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Responsibility was ideal. There are room to try your approach. Some responsibility includes reviewing other people work, but there is always someone else double checking my work
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?
Excel, financial modelling, communicating with contractors, wind farm elements/components, working with huge teams
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
5/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
Above expectation. My line manager & supervisor provided enough information to get me started. It was easy to ask for help from other discipline expert. Everyone is supportive and helpful and answers any questions, even questions about careers/advice
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?
Supportive. Everyone is very understanding. Some are busy but they are willing to spend time teaching/chatting with you.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
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?
4/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
Yes, I was given a lot of freedom on how I could approach my task. Approach I took was backed with reasoning and my line manager was very supportive and would advise otherwise if the approach was too far fetch. There is no set in stone method/approach and this really allows me to be creative and explore other options
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 bp
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend bp to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to bp
Do not worry about technical knowledge. If you are willing to learn, everyone is willing to talk/chat with you. They will either point you in the right direction or explain to you.
bp is a very diverse company, there is a lot of different discipline and it is great to have a chat with as many people as you can to get an idea of what each discipline does
bp is a very diverse company, there is a lot of different discipline and it is great to have a chat with as many people as you can to get an idea of what each discipline does
