Boots Talent Programmes – Finance – Year in Industry Review

It was a great job where you are given responsibility from the start and help the team you are placed with function as efficiently as possible.

I got on really well with the team and they were friendly and always helpful. They were always willing to answer questions helping me to improve my understanding of the business and the way they provide services to clients.

You need to be proactive and show initiative. Although the team were really helpfully generally this came through people filling in as my manager was, on the vast majority of occasions, too busy to see me.

I always had something to do but I could also have handled more. Once you show them what you have got your responsibility rapidly increases and by the end of the internship my workload was significantly higher and I was doing more worthwhile tasks for the team.

As mentioned in previous comments you are given responsibility from the start and this gradually improves as you show your quality and what you can bring to the table. By the end of my internship I definitely felt like a valuable member of the team.

The work I have done here will help me so much in my return to university, given the module choices I have made, but what is more important is the experience it gives you to get onto graduate schemes or other placements and giving you an insight as to whether this is really the industry for you.

Atmosphere was good and the more you achieved at work the more accepted you were by the group

It was all quite well co-ordinated and systematic

The team invested a lot of time in me to help me improve my understanding and become more useful to them, so in terms of development I owe a lot to the team that I was placed with.

I think I should get an offer and hence believe they have a high conversion rate, but this does obviously depend on what you put into the scheme.

Really good amongst fellow placement students with a lot of them organising events together and meeting up after work and at the weekend. In terms of colleagues it depends on your desk and the kind of people you are with and their other commitments.

Both are quite affordable

I can't really comment on this as I didn't go out with my team or other inters at night, just for few events and the like. But I am led to believe that the rest of London is pretty close by.

The programme provide nothing of this sort, however, being in London and depending on what time you make for yourself there are plenty of opportunities for you to try new things or keep up with current hobbies