Associate Review

by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

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Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

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

    • Worked on many different projects over the course of the internship, these included analysing worker productivity over time, internal forecasting and business model analysis. Day-to-day this involved a lot of data work (some cleaning, mostly analysis) and the delivery of presentations to key stakeholders. Also involved in several learning modules over the course of the internship.

    Skills

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

    • Become more competent handling and deriving insights from large data sets. Completed courses on data fluency, business model analytics and several training sessions around the FCAs internal data tools. Developed presentation skills and became better able to manage expectations to avoid overcommitting with deadlines.

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

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • I was given a large amount of freedom to pursue the direction I thought best in my projects (with weekly meetings with managers to guide my progress). Most projects involved an element of creativity with which I was given total freedom and ended up with insightful and somewhat novel results.

  • 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?

    • Everyone was very approachable and very happy to offer guidance, my Line Manager was great and was more than happy to put me in touch with people from other departments. We were assigned buddies on the graduate scheme to meet with every week and give general advice.

  • 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?

    • 5/5

    Culture

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

    • Very relaxed, people were more than happy to chat and meet about anything, as long as I met my deliverables I had total freedom to do what I wanted and to meet with whomever I wanted

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • It was a great insight into the business within a very relaxed environment, I would certainly recommend to others

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

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

    • 5/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

    • Read through the key FCA values and try to display them as much as possible during your interviews, stay up to date on a few of the FCAs key new initiatives. No need to do any prep before day 1

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

August 2022

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