Throughout the year we will be following the progress of our Guest Bloggers so read on to find out how Anna has been getting on at GSK! “So, I’ve now been with GSK just over 3 months and it has seriously gone by so quickly. Whilst I am still constantly learning and picking up new things and meeting new people, I also feel really settled here. One of the things I find motivates me most is how empowered I feel. I receive a lot of emails about Orange Day volunteering, organising Macmillan coffee morning, updating our website etc and I am given the responsibility to deal with this myself. Obviously there are times when I do not know the answer so will check with another employee. Or sometimes I feel someone more senior should be dealing with the query so I will send it on. However, a lot of the time I feel confident in liasing with the contact to help make decisions and give advice. I am also working hard to update our internal website which has been quite a big project and again something I have been given full responsibility on within our team. I then arrange meetings with the relevant technical people to help me implement all of the new additions. I am also working hard to get our interactive maps moving. This is hard work as it means communicating with many different members of our team throughout the UK and US offices, however, it is great to see it all coming together and my manager seems really impressed with what I have done so far. I have observed a lot since working at GSK in terms of how corporate companies work together, how they get on as a team and looking at culture. For example, my team has undergone a lot of changes over the last year with new vice and senior presidents as well as other team members leaving and temporary workers coming in and out. I can really tell how much harder it makes everyday work for employees as their workload not only increases but everything takes so much longer because it is not clear who is in charge of what. However, GSK really impresses me because they are ensuring that they tackle these complications as well as possible. This week I attended a group meeting to discuss with HR specialists what is working well with the team and what needs changing. We are then going to have a workshop to build on all of this and ensure that we are working as effectively as possible.” Find out more from Anna at GSK, as well as our other Guest Bloggers in the next couple of weeks! Feel free to add your thoughts below! Would you like a placement at GSK?