Investments Summer Intern Review
by abrdn
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at abrdn
- 7. Would you recommend abrdn to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to abrdn
Overview
Introductory level role into asset management. Day-to-day work involves attending meetings with the team and external clients/ fund managers, completing data tasks (e.g. Excel, Morningstar), a lot of networking, conducting research for the team, attending intern development activities, working towards your final objective project.
Skills
Investing technical skills A lot of new software skills (e.g. Excel, Morningstar, Bloomber, Style) Networking & communication skills Research skills time management
Responsibilities
More admin/ data tasks, networking and meeting-shadowing in the first few weeks. In the latter half, I was given individual big projects to work towards, with guidance from senior members of the team
Support & Guidance
Quite a lot - everyone in my team was very approachable, and when I wanted to chat with people from other teams, they were all very friendly
Culture
It was hard to say as the internship was virtual... But everyone I spoke to was very nice and approachable
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed networking with a wide range of people and being given more responsibility in the second half of the internship
Yes
Show that you have strong communication skills and you are keen to learn and network. ESG is also a strong focus of the company investment ethos - so look into that
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Financial Management
London
August 2021
