Business Consultant / Business Technologist Review

Excellent placement opportunity which provides huge scope to learn new things. Given a 9 as consultancy is very dynamic and agile - tasks change very frequently, therefore there must be a passion to be a consultant.

Get to know almost every single colleague. Very family-like feel.

Tasks are initially handed over by a senior manager who will assist and manager progress, as you develop the independence of producing tasks on your own grows.

In consulting, the nature of the job can mean that you are extremely busy one week, working longer then usual hours(this tends to be a must on most client sites), and then on the other hand the workload the following week may be very reasonable. Entirely depends on the role within consultancy you take, I have always hand tasks to do, some with indicated delivery dates, and others with a more longer period.

As with any role, as you grow and demonstrate responsibility Atos staff members will actively encourage you to take on more and more responsibility. By the end of my placement, as stated by a partner, the role I was performing was that of a grade consultant higher then even a graduate in-take. So the role is very challenging and pushes you to be the best you can.

Definitely skills for life, it helps keeping track of your development, and Atos's employee performance reviews helps to show how much I did develop key skills through my placement.

Open desk area, with 'hot desk' seating means that you rarely seated in the same seat from day to day. This encourages conversations with different colleagues...so atmosphere is always friendly. Only down side would be others talking distracting focus from work that requires attention to detail.

The placement scheme is still very new at Atos. I would say that there is still a lot of room for development in terms of the very first months of my placement. Atos needs to do a bit more in terms of helping a placement student find there feet in a new role, by perhaps pairing up with a colleagues for a few weeks at the beginning. There is great opportunity for you to craft your own role, and as I have found it is your motivation and pro-activeness that will define what you do day to day at Atos. This may be a negative for those who prefer just to be told what to do, but it is certainly a positive is you are motivated to develop yourself and impress.

4 week induction period at the start of my placement. The consulting unit in Atos has invested a lot in their training, from on-line tools to teach you vital terms a consultant should understand, to on the job training by specialist staff members.

Once you have made the right impressions and have proved yourself as a worthwhile asset to the firm, Atos are more than happy to take you on as a graduate...in the role you have done your placement, or even if you'd like to take another role in the company, all options can be considered.

Great great social seen. This however is not with placement students, as mentioned before the placement scheme at Atos is fairly new, therefore not many placement opportunities are allocated. However there is a very close network of graduates, post-grads who are always socialising!

Given that my placement was in the centre of london, socialising is not cheap. However as you work in london you soon get to know where 'THE' places to go are. Many offer happy hours, which are very happy on your pocket too! Living expenses are high as well, but there are many young working people who would shared accommodation with you, making it very reasonable.

London night life is awesome. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays you would usual be out with work friends on at least one of these nights, every week.

Constant invites go around for out-of-work activities, so long as you meet the right people at Atos, once you get known, the invites flow in - very social and fun.