Actuarial Intern (Retrocession team) Review
by Aon
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.0
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Your Impressions
3.7
- 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 Aon
- 7. Would you recommend Aon to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Aon
Overview
Working on both team and individual projects. These would usually be smaller, non client projects (such as creating an excel template, or basic data cleansing and analysis work). Largely based in excel and occasionally company specific tools like remetrica. Involved in a couple of presentation based projects using powerpoint. There was a roughly even split between group and individual work
Skills
-Excel -Office 365 -Remetrica (inhouse tool) -General Insurance industry acumen
Responsibilities
A moderate amount of responsibility. Not working on client projects, but I was working to develop tools/databases that the Actuarial team could make use of on a regular basis
Support & Guidance
Lots of support. Team was very friendly, everyone was happy to discuss any questions or issues, either via messages, email, video call, or in person. Thorough training provided at the beginning of the internship and throughout.
Culture
Friendly and welcoming. Everyone seemed hardworking and collaborative. Fairly flat structure - the managers all seemed very approachable, and you were able to talk to and network with people in other service lines and departments. Overall, fantastic company culture. Great focus on diversity. Could have a more wellbeing centric approach, but there were some systems in place to utilise. Free starbucks coffees were a great perk!
Your Impressions
I enjoyed it. I occasionally found it slightly stressful, as the work/technology could be frustrating, and I had a long commute. 9-5 working pattern is a big adjustment from university. Some of the projects were slightly outside of the skill range I could reasonably be expected to have, but the challenge was good
Yes
Be friendly in the interview. Definitely only apply if you have good numerical skills, as you will be wrangling data all day! This skill is also essential to the application process. If you get the position, ask everyone lots of questions and be involved with as many training opportunities, meetings and projects as you possibly can
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Actuary
London
August 2022
