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Working for The Coca-Cola Company
What does it take to create Coca-Cola? Lots of amazing people!
Quality Control - checking bottles on the production line
There's something special about The Coca-Cola Company. There's a sense of pride that comes from building brands people love and making the most of ourselves as a company and as individuals.
In one way, you've known about the company all your life. But what you may not know is what it takes to create this world wide brand? What sort of job do you do when you work for a company like Coca-Cola?
We are on a new journey of growth, building on our most formidable assets: our brands, our financial strength, our global reach, our unrivalled distribution system and the strong commitment of our management and employees worldwide.
I've worked for Coca-Cola for the last 5 years and I'm passionate about my job and my company.
A typical day for a Graduate:
A typical day varies hugely between project and role, which tends to change every 6 to 12 months depending on supply and demand.
Get in at 8am, check through emails for 15 minutes then start preparing for a meeting at 9/9:30. You can spend the majority of your time in meetings with my team or the clients team (or both) discussing various organisational aspects of the project, collecting, collating and prioritising requirements from the client and presenting designs, explaining how a system or process would work.
Then you might be updating and maintaining project finance spreadsheets, creating project design/requirements documents and submitting them for sign off by the management. You'd hope to finish work around 6/6:30pm but it's not unheard of for employees to do the odd late night!
Cost of living:
Once hired you were assigned a 'home office', e.g. London or Milton Keynes it may not always be the same office the one that you are interviewed in. Within your home office city you paid for your own accommodation/expenses, but if you travel to a different city or country to work your accommodation and expenses were covered by the company.
Lifestyle:
Work hard, but get rewarded for it - the company spends a lot of money on making sure their employees are kept happy. There were many company funded social functions which involved heavy drinking (of Coca-Cola of course!)
I am the graduate talent officer for Coca-Cola in the UK and an old Pelican School Girl, so if you've got any questions or thoughts about working for Coca-Cola don't hesitate to get in touch with me through The Pelican School for Girls network!
