Sandwich Placement Student Review

by Savills

Best Student Employer

Rating

4/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    3.5
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Residential valuation: role involved inspecting prime flats and houses in prime central London, carrying out due diligence, finding comparables, report writing, and calling local agents to get market knowledge in order to get to a final value. Management: role involved keeping all leaseholders updated with any maintenance issues/works, sending out monthly meter readings, organising HIU servicing with contractor and residents.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • More confident picking up the phone now. Also have developed better customer service skills as i am regularly dealing with unhappy residents.

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • Yes, I was carrying out valuations from start to finish within a month. I would do the whole process, and then get my valuation cross checked at the end,

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • It varied between the two rotations - but HR were always on hand to help with this

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Friendly

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • I have really enjoyed my time at Savills. Changing teams whilst working at home in a pandemic definitely had its challenges, but nonetheless it has been great. I have no regrets about doing a placement year.

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Savills

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Savills to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Savills

    • Be yourself, be willing to work hard and meet lots of people.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Property Management

London

June 2021

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