SSC Summer Intern Review

by BDO

Rating

4.7/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

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

    • Spent some time in 3 different departments, learning key accounting practices and training in various softwares and the services they offer.

    Skills

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

    • Developed existing professional and personal skills such as communication, time management etc. Learnt new, practical skills such as technology, accounting specific etc.

  • 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?

    • 4/5
  • 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

    • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • The work was largely accompanied if it was live, or it was a training/demo case to practice and learn from.

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Plenty, always felt comfortable asking for help and assistance, or checking over week that I had completed to make sure it was correct.

  • 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?

    • Exceptional - exactly what it was described to be and more. Always felt comfortable and welcome.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 4/5
  • 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?

    • Really enjoyed the whole internship, plenty of variety to keep things interesting and lots of support available throughout.

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

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at BDO

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BDO

    • Do your research on the company - its values, the culture, the services offered to clients', the purpose etc Be yourself through the application/assessment process and while you are there, ask as many questions as possible you are there to learn.

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Accounting

North West

August 2023

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