Shadowing the graduate foresters observing their day to day activities attending team meetings to discuss the varies projects the team were undergoing Shown the mapping and planning for new woodland creation as well as being shown the varies grant sche
During my insight week I was able to shadow my mentor and gain a deeper knowledge as to what it is someone within the project management team at Savills does I was also given tasks to do such as reading through leases and extracting key information cre
Site visits to see current projects following a graduate employee and looking into the work they must complete a general insight into each department
In my experience I worked with the in town retail team which covers commercial property on the high street and schemes including shopping centres On a daytoday basis my team mentor included me with some of the essentialsimple tasks for example emails
On a daytoday basis we would have a look at our emails and see which one of our clients had replied back We will then proceed to draft wayleave or Deed of Easement agreements for our clients for a finished project Communicating with contractors over t
Variety of tasks including comment trackers research preparing notes for other employees working with excel etc
When I arrived I was greeted by my mentor who then invited me into the team meeting in which I was introduced to the team Daily interactions included being wholeheartedly spoken to by everyone from a multitude of departments I did not have many inter
My insight week has been a very diverse and exciting experience enabled by my day to day schedule which was thoughtfully integrated and arranged by my mentor I have been able to learn in depth the processes involved within varying areas of specialis
Varied range of rural property management including office and outside work Reviewing tenancy agreements and leasehold agreements Outside work included viewing land to rent
Apart of my role was to learn about farm consultancy and take part in different farm businesses I was able to help fill forms required for basic farm management and be able to understand how a farms cashflow works
Most of the work involved making residential comparables by finding similar local schemes to a proposed development and then inputting this data onto an Excel spreadsheet I then used this data to later write reports about the development
I helped the consultants writing heritage assessments and deskbased assessments I also accompanied some of the consultants on a few site visits
Over the four weeks I was given the opportunity to visit a residential investment block an office block and a retail store Following the visits I was required to write a full valuation report The report taught me many skills required in valuing a prope
Apart of my time at savills was to learn from the rural food and farming sector about the agricultural sector This meant I was involved with Government Grants Agricultural licenses and budget reports
Day to day activities involved shadowing team members working on reports and attending both on site and virtual meetings
Assissting on site reviews General graduate tasks Research Planning applications Cover letters
Creating comps reports Updating development pipeline Creating presentations Creating investment proposals
My role consisted of supporting more senior team members by updating their comp schedules creating my own comps sheets on excel and using websites such as land registry and rightmove to find the correct data
Shadowing a chartered surveyor Often went on site visits did report writing schedule of condition or created floor plans for reports and participated in meetings with other departments within the office including but not limited to rural estate manag
Working for the Energy team based in Edinburgh carrying out research tasks and site finding for the team Become highly informed about the different areas within the energy sector and how Savills plays a role in advising clients on their energy portfolios
