Summer Vacation Scheme (Audit) Review

Overall I very much enjoyed my work placement with Deloitte, the people I worked with took me seriously and were friendly and helpful.

All the teams I worked in treated me as equal and I was given real tasks to complete. There were no menial tasks such as making tea or filing paperwork.

All tasks were carefully explained to me and if I was struggling with anything I only needed to ask and it was explained again.

I made myself quite busy by carrying out work efficiently, and it didn't go unnoticed. It is by no means an internship where you can coast along, you are given plenty of work and it is expected that you can perform at a good level.

I was given the same responsibility as would be given to a first year graduate and this is quite a large deal. While some things are reviewed by managers, I was entrusted with a lot of tasks that were important to completing the job for the client.

There was a large level of attention to detail which is key in auditing for a client - teamworking is also a large part of the job as audit work is carried out by teams. These will certainly benefit me in the future and be highly relevant to any job I do after graduating.

I worked in a range of different offices as the client changes every so often depending on which team you are booked on to. In all offices the atmosphere was very professional but everyone is friendly and eager to help you out where you need.

This is the one thing I found issue with when it comes to my placement. The recruitment process was very well organised but once I had confirmed my placement all further information was very jumbled and delayed and it took HR a while to fix the problems so I was left unsure what was going on. During the placement some IT issues occurred and made it difficult for me to log my hours and use the Deloitte mail service. In terms of the placement itself I was always booked on to teams and the managers and associates I was working with were aware I was coming and always had tasks for me to complete so it was great. So I would stress that while I had some initial issues, these were all sorted and weren't a problem in the end.

We were given a basic level of training to teach us how to use the IT systems and how to carry out the basics of the audit software, referencing our work back to the general system. As it was only a short internship I didn't expect to have lengthy training and the training we received was more than adequate for the tasks I was given.

I have been offered the opportunity to return to the company as a full time graduate (which I have accepted!)

Everyone was friendly and we had the occasional lunch and drinks together.

Living around London is always expensive but as I live there it wasn't personally too bad.

London has great nightlife! Very expensive though

As i was at the company for such a short time there wasn't a great deal going on at the time but I know that there normally is for full time employees