Savills Summer Scheme Student Review
by Savills
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 Savills
- 7. Would you recommend Savills to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Savills
Overview
Working on service charge budgets, budget reports and reconciliation reports. Reading through leases to determine repair responsibilities and to check rents, rent review dates and break option dates. Contacting tenants to collect rent and service charge arrears, and to provide them with updated policies. I went to a number of site visits, to carry out inspections.
Skills
I have learnt a lot during my internship, especially having not studied real estate before, including reading a lease, interpret service charge budgets and expenditure and tenancy schedules, and completing reports. During the month I spent at Savills, I have met people from many areas of the business, expanding my knowledge of the services offered by Savills, and improving my interpersonal and networking skills.
Responsibilities
I have contact tenants directly regarding arrears, updated policies and other queries and I have completed a number of budget and reconciliation reports and updated tenancy schedules. Through networking events, I have also met a number of directors, who have given me advice and guidance to continue my career in real estate.
Support & Guidance
I was assigned a mentor who I have worked with directly throughout my month at Savills, who gave me tasks to do and talked me through anything I did not understand and was happy to answer any questions I had. I felt very supported throughout my internship, from HR and the graduate recruitment team, and also from all members within my team.
Culture
Savills is a very friendly and welcoming company, and assigning each intern a mentor definitely helped to ease us into the business. The interns were encouraged to socialise within each other, and we had walking tours, networking drinks and welcome breakfasts.
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed my internship, as my team were very supportive and I enjoyed all of the work I completed. I definitely want to continue my career at Savills.
Yes
Make sure that you are able to effectively work in a team during the assessment centre, and don't take over a group debate or discussion. Read up on the market overview for the interview, and if you do not know the answer to a question, be honest, and ask them to explain the answer.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Property Management
London
August 2022
