Accounting Intern Review

got an internship through Go Abroad China; they are the ones that seemed to offer what I wanted close the budget I had. I worked for a trade company based in downtown Shanghai. Doing the work experience in Shanghai was great; my team was in charge of finding clients through emails, phone calls and doing presentations. I was also involved with a lot of research about how the trade industry works and where that company should be improving. China is quite crowded but the life in Shanghai is great, if I found a job there I wouldn’t hesitate to move there. I don’t really speak Chinese but it wasn’t a problem at work since I was not the only foreigner in the company, so English was easily spoken; plus plenty of Chinese in Shanghai actually speak English! Besides that I did have several times I went out to see the town and have fun too.

as an intern you are given the opportunity to voice your opinions on the operational tasks in branch and how they could be improved.

My internship comapny really were supportive and looked towards my professional development. I was able to speak to colleagues and get there advice when needed. It was often more of a learn on the job approach which I found more useful and interesting that simulated or practice tasks.

I never felt overworked and the hours were always reasonably flexible. You are also tasked to take control in all areas of business therefore if customer base was quiet you could be working on your folder, dealing with accounts, catching up with paperwork

From day one you are given a lot of responsibility, in all aspects of the business model .There was always some oversight from a project/team manager and a QA process so I had the confidence that any major mistakes would be spotted.

I learnt a lot about the energy industry from the work and from workshops and webinars. I found that I learnt about how projects and relationships with clients work and I believe this will be very useful in the futures.

There was a positive atmosphere.There was a good graduate, apprentice and placement community which organised regular meetings and events.

I was extremely surprised by the level of organisation that goes into their scheme and the continuous support given by all employees.

I felt there was a good amount of training, particularly at the beginning. A lot of the learning was on-the-job

Good, there were incentives to return as a graduate which I plan on doing. There seemed to be good opportunities for career progression and development.

There was a graduate,apprentice and placement community which organised regular events. There were also events organised by the team and the department (e.g. Christmas and Summer parties)

Reasonable. I relocated to a completely unknown area, i was lucky to move into a house share with great people at a reasonable cost!

there were a lot of other students and events.

There are a lot of charity based events you can get involved in even though i didn't have time to get involved myself a few co-workers got involved in pride events & 5 aside football & foodbank events,There were some activities organised through the sport and social club as well as plenty of other opportunities