PMC Summer Student Review

by Lane Clark & Peacock

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Tracking claims on project work, updating spreadsheets, drafting emails, updating spreadsheets for clients, ad hoc project work, calculations, attending client meetings, taking minutes, noting down actions and decisions, administrative work.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Analytical skills, client management, people skills, numerical skills, project management, administrative skills


  • 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?
  • 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?
  • Yes at times but everything was checked and reviewed by senior people, this allowed me to learn.


  • 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?
  • A lot, from buddy and other members of the team as well as line manager


  • 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?
  • Nice atmosphere, very friendly friendly however my department felt a little separated from the rest of the company so it was difficult to feel entirely integrated at times.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 2/5

  • 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 it and I enjoyed the work and had a lot of opportunity to work. I felt quite separated from the rest of the company and it was quite difficult to socialise and meet new people as there were not many planned occasions to do so. It was unfortunate that I could not discover the outcome of my internship on my last day, as the other interns did.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 3/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Lane Clark & Peacock
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Lane Clark & Peacock to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Lane Clark & Peacock
  • Make your application stand out in the questions and answer question, research pensions in depth.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Management Consulting

London

August 2022


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