Anaylst Review

It was an incredible experience and gave me much valued insight into the company as a whole as well as experience within my team. The company gave great support both from the HR perspective of running the Internship program as well as my individual team therefore made it enjoyable to go into the workplace every day.

The buddy that I was assigned gave fantastic support, helping me to get up to speed with the systems and procedures required to help give value add to the team. The rest of the team were equally as good at imparting their knowledge of the different regulations and giving me a really good overview of the whole scope dealt with by the team, not just the parts that I was going to be helping out with.

Management gave frequent advice and reviews of my work during the placement. Although meetings were not as frequent as initially we would have liked due to holidays and a ramp up of projects in the team. My manager helped identify area's were my skills would be useful and set me interesting value add projects. I was trusted to work on these and give occasional updates.

My workload was based around some manual tasks that had to be done daily, and then work on projects set out by my manager. This was a very good balance because it allowed me to be contributing to the team daily while also increasing my skills in research and problem solving by working on the projects.

I was responsible for ensuring both vital daily tasks were done to a very high level of accuracy as well as the time spent researching and working on my projects. Later in the program I even got the chance to train new collegues in the team on what I had learned, being trusted to pass on the information I had gathered. At all times while it was clear their was oversight, I was trusted to get on with my work to a good standard.

The computer skills developed during my time at the company will be invaluable both in my studies and future employment. It is one area of my studies that is in fact lacking is in depth use of computers within the course. The majority of the course is based on theoretical concepts. Therefore this represents real world use of computers to achieve goals and projects.

I was impressed by the very friendly and professional atmosphere at all times within the company. They seemed to get the work/life balance right for the employee's and the vast majority of those I spoke to were friendly and happy to be at the company.

The HR department did a fantastic job at organizing a large amount of interns within the program, putting on the initial few days training and then regular sessions with upper management and general training. They also provided some good networking opportunities both in work and at activities outside of the workplace.

The firm seemed to invest a lot of time and effort into the interns on the program. It put on a lot of training events with everyone being very willing to take time out in order to help pass on knowledge. It was very clear that they were hoping that people would want to come back to the graduate scheme.

The company really left a lasting impression and I have requested a second internship for between my 3rd and 4th year with the plan to then move into their graduate scheme afterwards. It is certainly the sort of company that I would want to work for.

The social scene between students was certainly good, although as a mature student I did not get involved as much as others in this. Between colleagues however it was also very good, with organizing different team events/night out. Even with one colleague picking up a new sport together.

Since I live in the center of the city already, it wasn't any more/less expensive than normal for me. Certainly however on the cheaper end of social events.

Reasonable, but again this is the city I've lived in most my life, therefore I am used to it.

Their were certainly opportunities presented, with the Interns themselves organizing weekly nights out and the HR department also organizing a few nights out during the program.