Actuarial Intern Review
by PwC
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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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 PwC
- 7. Would you recommend PwC to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to PwC
Overview
I have assisted on various pension related projects on work such as checking actuarial assumptions of audits and buy-in valuations, drafted slides for client presentations and carried out some business development research and collated this in a report format. Throughout the internship, all interns are involved with the Dragon's Den project where you are given a social enterprise to work with and you produce a plan for the future based on their needs.
Skills
Communication and teamwork are imperative in the workplace. I have improved my presenting skills and been exposed to premade complex spreadsheets for checking assumptions and pension liability.
Responsibilities
Yes, there is a high level of trust put in you from the start as you are tasked with various pieces of work. Despite this, everyone is extremely approachable so any issues/queries you may have they are more than happy to help with. I have found this one of the best areas of the internship.
Support & Guidance
Everyone in the team - irrespective of their level - was always very keen to help. People within the office are very approachable and even people within the team based in other offices pr working from home were always more than happy to jump on a video call to explain something.
Culture
It's very clear PwC care about their employees from offering summer working hours where you can condense your working week to 4.5 days a week, to weekly gifts throughout the internship - pizza express and cafe nero vouchers!
Your Impressions
I have thoroughly enjoyed my 4 weeks at PwC and should I be offered a job I would definitely be looking to return. The work has been interesting and very varied and the team and other interns are all very friendly and I have gotten along with them well. It is clear the company very much care about their employees and that they are passionate about their progression through the business and any professional qualification.
Yes
Apply! If you get to an interview stage just be yourself and recruiters are only people after all and want to hire someone they would want to work with. If you are successful and get a place on the internship programme, ask as many questions as you can and try to get to know as many people as you can - different grades and lines of service as well as fellow interns.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Actuary
Scotland
July 2022
