Tax Intern Review

From the beginning where we had a 3 day induction in Birmingham through to the final ball the time flew by which is always a sign of a good time!

Having feedback forms returned for each project you worked on made you realise the value of the work you did. All of our colleagues were supportive and cheerful and somehow made tax enjoyable which many might find an impossible task. For any of the projects I was given my colleagues made me aware of the reasons why I had to do them and how that would help them which made me feel useful and valued.

There was never a moment where you couldn't ask someone for clarification or help. The major bonus of doing the summer internship in tax is that it's not a 'busy' time for the tax team so they had time to go over projects and explain concepts.

Everyday I had something to do and it got to the point where I was having to turn away work because so many different colleagues had provided me with jobs. There's a real variety in the work that you do so it never got boring.

It didn't feel like I had a lot of responsibility for many of my tasks as they were usually smaller pieces of work to help along with bigger projects. Although some people may liked to have had more challenging jobs I felt that the way they eased you into the scheme suited my lack of experience in a business environment.

My research skills, presentation skills and phone skills all improved immensely as a result of the projects given. In terms of presentation skills this has been very useful as a lot of my modules for my final year at uni have assessments through giving presentations.

There was always chatting in the cantine area and everyone had catch ups in the morning before cracking on with work. It was a fairly relaxed atmosphere where you never felt very stressed and if you ever did there was usually someone by who would fetch you a cup of tea!

I knew what I was doing from day one and the office I was working in kept our calendars up to date.

The three day induction programme was not only great fun and a good chance to meet like-minded people but it was invaluable for getting to know the ins and outs of EY. We then had an induction day once we'd reached our offices which was also very useful for learning technicalities such as the phone system.

I think EY try and employ 90% of their interns in graduate scheme which is obviously very attractive.

Because we were a small team of interns it was easy to organise nights out. Obviously some colleagues were more keen than others, but the offer was always there to do something on a Friday night.

Cambridge doesn't have that many great clubs but having lived there all my life I'm very used to it.

Not many that I know of.