The training part is a trap - Trainee reporter GlobalData Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Overall nice colleagues and supportive managers. Pretty flexible schedule and a decent work/life balance.

Cons

- Poor management decisions with little understanding of how that might impact the overall experience for a trainee. - Some questionable datasets. - We received "news writing" training months into our graduate scheme, after individually covering dozens of news stories. Apart from that, sporadic training - were it not for our line managers, we would have struggled.

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GlobalData Response
2y
Thank you for your feedback, and we are pleased to read you feel supported. GlobalData line managers, colleagues and other subject matter experts try to provide appropriate training and feedback either on the job, especially in daily news publishing, or via classroom-based sessions, where that’s more beneficial. We also encourage you to use all the company resources to enhance your subject knowledge, whether our own Intelligence Centres, webinars, conferences, or access to our third-party online learning platform and external news subscriptions. Managers can also guide you on the appropriate use of datasets. If there is a subject area you need guidance in to do your job and your manager can’t support it, we will try our best to find someone who can. Please let your manager know about subject priorities or contact learninganddevelopment@globaldata.com directly.

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