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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at JLR
- 7. Would you recommend JLR to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to JLR
Overview
My placement has ended up being effectively three sub placements, in each, I was considered as a new employee, not an intern. Upon demonstrating aptitude to the team I was placed in, I was given the same level of responsibility as my full time colleagues, contributing authentic engineering projects and challenges. Since I worked in three areas, the day to day work changed throughout the year but all had underlying aspects of technical problem solving, learning, communications, and planning in the relevant area.
Skills
I greatly developed my python skills, using it most days at some points (Building full-stack applications for teams to make use of). Self management, with the added complexity of needing to be at certain places to do certain tasks (sometimes at large distances away), communicating with colleagues to organise transport while maintaining time for necessities, actual work, and myself was a skill that I had many opportunities to develop and become comfortable with this year.
Responsibilities
I believe it depends on how much trust you can build with your team. I have been able to get involved and become an important component to ongoing projects within the company. It seems that if you have the curiosity and drive to develop skills that require taking on responsibility, then the company will be able to provide those opportunities.
Support & Guidance
As much as I needed. I was given multiple contacts from the start to support me as an employee but also as an undergrad intern. Meaning I felt there was a safety net to any personal, developmental, professional support I needed. That being said, it was not over the top. I was not hand-held, but allowed to develop my individual competence, and solve problems out of my comfort zone.
Culture
It seemed to vary from department to department. With some having quite stale, slightly icy atmospheres and others feeling much more friendly and upbeat.
Your Impressions
As a contrast from university, this industrial placement was 'tough love' so to speak. It's a realistic view into corporate/professional/engineering work which started out as feeling brutal and unforgiving but enabled me to develop humility and maturity. I've reached a point of enjoying each day and feeling driven to create exceptional things as I have a clearer understanding of how that work may positively impact the day to day lives of real people.
Yes
1. Don't overthink any responses. I was lucky to receive a reserve offer meaning the initial response I received contained the magic word 'Unfortunately'. The placement market is very competitive with sometimes small details being the deciding factors between successful and unsuccessful applications. Be it easier said than done, genuinely, don't worry about rejection as you will manage with enough perseverance. 2. Think about your 'silver bullet'. I have a ugrad colleague who received over 10 offers when applying, and I agree with their strategy. Show off! Not only that, show off in a way an employer can remember. Formula 西瓜视频? Built a cool thing? Creating innovations independently? Make sure they know!
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Automotive Engineering
West Midlands
June 2025