Summer Intern Review

My internship was, overall, very enjoyable, but some of the work was not as exciting as expected.

Everyone at KPMG was very friendly, welcoming and always willing to help. This made you feel like a very valuable member of the team.

My manager and colleagues I worked with were very supportive and my performance manager gave me very good feedback and advice throughout my placement; this was one of the highlights of the internship as it helped indicate areas I could improve.

This varied; some days were busy, whilst other days could be quite slow in terms of work. This does however allow you to talk and meet with other colleagues and understand more about their work. However, you need to be very proactive to get most of your work and this is my advice to any others who get onto the KPMG internship; 4 weeks goes extremely fast and to make the most of it you must start asking for work as soon as you start.

My responsibility varied, but most of the work I was given was useful to most projects I worked on. However, you have to be willing to work on less exciting tasks before you will be given more important work by senior colleagues. This again depends on how proactive you are and how much passion you show in terms of wanting to do work for more senior members of the firm.

I developed many skills during my placement, but one of the most exciting was gaining an insight into financial models and how to use them. This should help me going forward. My soft skills were also developed and this should stand me in good stead going into my future career.

The atmosphere was very relaxed, but everyone was working very hard throughout the days. You can approach almost anyone and they will be willing to have a chat.

The internship was well organised. However, it could improve by providing more social events to get interns from other departments talking with one another.

The training programs provided during the internship were limited, but very useful. The limitation again is to be expected given it is only 4 weeks long. However, more could be done in terms of allowing all interns to attend; because if you are busy during the time the event will run, you will probably not be able to attend.

If you can establish yourself and produce good work, you can go very far within this organisation.

This was entirely dependent on how well you can manage to coordinate with other interns outside your working hours.

I live in London so cost of living was low for me. However, cost of living in London is high so that is not that great. Social events for interns were limited.

London nightlife is brilliant; so many things to do.

I believe that you could join sports clubs and this allowed you to socialise with other colleagues and interns. In addition, there were volunteering opportunities you could sign up for. However, due to the short nature of the internship this was not really that applicable.