Healthcare Consulting Intern Review

by IBM

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.4/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Day-to-day responsibilities involve supporting the teams you are working on; this can be varied depending on the type of project you are involved in but, generally, it involves aiding the rest of the team in anything that they need. For example, creating and editing deliverables for clients and helping to track the teams’ actions, blockers and priorities to ensure they are all working towards their set deadlines.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Working with clients, I have built my confidence in a professional environment as well as in client facing roles. I have learnt lots of excel, powerpoint and word skills. I have built on my organisational and admin skills. I have been able to develop my virtual learning and collaboration tools, for example tool such as Trello and Mural.


  • 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?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

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

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • During my placement, from the beginning I was given lots of responsibility. However, I was support to feel like I wasn't taking on too much. I feel very lucky to have been able to have such a wide variety of projects and roles during my placement year, which covers lots of client facing roles as wells internal roles.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I was given a lot of support at IBM. There were lots of people I could go to ask questions and get supported by. I felt comfortable raising issues and questions and felt that I was listened to throughout my placement.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • The culture at IBM is very good and it seems that every employee is valued and their options are wanted. Weather you are an interns or partner, it seems that everyone is valued.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

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

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

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoyed my placement very much. It has taught me about myself and my professional capabilities. I feel that I am equipped to go bak to university and continue my career with lots of skills and options that I have learnt during my year at IBM.


  • 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 IBM
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to IBM
  • Be bold. Make sure that you think about where you interests lie and articulate that to the people around you. Everyone at IBM ants to make sure you succeed, you just need to think about what direction you want to go in


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Management Consulting, Information Technology

London

July 2022


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