Managing Consultant Review

The work was interesting and challenging and provided great insight into the life of the firm.

Everybody was extremely friendly and welcoming and trusted me to fulfill new and unfamiliar tasks, giving me personal responsibility and showing that my work was valuable to the projects I was working on.

Everybody I interacted with made it clear that they were available for support and for me to ask questions, and if I was stuck help me out. The Buddy system they implemented was amazing and very supportive

The vast majority of the time I was busy on important tasks but some of the time I was between projects with little to do but that is the nature of the industry and I was quickly placed onto a new area.

Consistently throughout the firm, managers felt confident to delegate responsibility for important tasks to me. I saw some of my work form final pieces of work that were submitted to clients, but as an intern with little or no experience there is a natural limit to what I am capable of taking responsibility for in such a short time period.

The main skills I have learned are soft skills, how to organise and work as part of a team, how to structure work and how to be a proffessional

There was a perfect balance between a professional work environment and a fun-loving sociable group of people

The structure was loose and dependent on the demands of the business with interns essentially being treated as first year associates. I really enjoyed this structure as I could immerse myself into what it would really be like. Secondly, we had an intern challenge which was very exciting and development days to further our skills and understanding of PwC. My only criticism is that the initial training we received was very poor and thin on the ground in terms of hard content.

I received all the training that every member of staff receives annually, the interns had a development day, we had an intern challenge alongside our other work to develop the necessary skills at PwC and whenever staff members were supporting me they took time to explain why we do things and what knock on effects things can have.

Received and accepted a graduate job offer

yes the interns formed a face book group and routinely organised social events that were well attended by like minded people.

I lived at home during the internship and the cost of socializing is cheap relative to London

Birmingham is a major UK city so the nightlife is vibrant and exciting and we took advantage of a varietry of events such as restaurants clubs and cocktail bars

there was availability to get involved in sports teams, volunteering and attend socials that were firm wide. They also provided expenses for welcome and goodbye meals