Industrial Placement Student Review

Item: Industrial Placement Student at GSK
Rating: 4.2
Author: Anonymous

at GSK

Placement (10 Months+)

Research, Science

Stevange

Review Submitted: April 2023

Overall Rating

4.2 /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!

3/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

3.5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

4/5 - Overall Experience

3/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

25:75 split of lab work to admin/experiment planning/experiment write ups/meetings. Focused on my own project while assisting my supervisor with their pipeline projects

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

responsibility of my own technology development work, but not of pipeline project work

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

3/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

• Presenting
• Collaborating
• Time management
• Project management
• Communication
• Lab write up
• Report writing
• Literature review writing
• Journal clubs
• Outsourcing requests
• Confidentiality of work
• glp
-gmp
-molecular biology
-lab write ups
-statistics
-IP
-data integrity

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 much as i wanted

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?

3/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Very progressive, inclusive and trying to do better and constantly evolve

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?

It was great and really valuable; showed me corporate industry is not for me but that's also very valuable.

Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

4/5

Please rate how your experience met your expectations

4/5

Future Career Prospects

Please rate the future employment prospects at GSK

3/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend GSK to a friend?

Yes

What advice would you give to others applying to GSK

They're ready and keen to develop you as a person, so it doesn't matter what you don't know but more that you're a very open person who is willing to learn.

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