CRB Summer Intern Review

Working at WTW allowed me to gain a real insight into the world of insurance, exponentially improving my knowledge and understanding of it. I enjoyed learning about the different areas of business and how broking is going to change in the future. It is a very useful scheme for those wanting to get a taste of the insurance world on a broader scale.

My colleagues for the 8 week experience valued my fresh perspective and insights. They wanted a new, younger person with less knowledge of how things work to give some insights into their work. I felt that my work was aiding the other more senior colleagues and creating opportunities for WTW throughout.

From the start, I was welcomed into the team I worked in who made a concerted effort to ensure that I understood the work I was doing and had the support I needed. They were encouraging, inclusive and helped to create an ideal environment to start in the industry.

While I was not worked exceptionally hard, my experience was about understanding the insurance market and the roles that my team played. I had a good balance of very busy days where I would only be rushing from meeting to meeting to others were I had little scheduled. I would say this leant itself for a good balance between the two.

I wouldn't say that I was given much responsibility as my role centred on finding new opportunities for business and aiding other members of the team/company. However, I was still involved in emailing clients, attending client meetings and speaking to prospects.

I learnt a plethora of different skills through my internship from research (very helpful for my history degree), to gaining an insight into small nuances on how to improve my presentation and public speaking skills. All together the skills that I learnt here will help me throughout my life, both through my degree and in my chose career path.

My area of the office had a friendly, buzzing atmosphere with people working hard but who were always happy to help where they could and get to know you, as the new face in the office. The people is what really makes insurance stand out, and I had a great experience of meeting helpful, hard working and friendly people.

It was pretty well organised. Interns are spread out into different sectors of the business where they work mainly for the 8 weeks. Especially useful is the speaker series which gives you exposure to all the other sectors of the company and to gain an understanding of the roles you might want to take in the future.

As we are only there for 8 weeks our personal training was not vast. However, we did receive training on presentation skills, from how to stand, use your hand and to how to create a business/corporate presentation which is a skill that few of us had any knowledge of.

About half of the interns end up with graduate offers from the company, so as long as you work hard and present yourself in a favourable light, an offer is there. The grad scheme consists of 2 one year placements and a greater exposure to the wider business. Even if insurance isn't necessarily your calling in life, the scheme will give you transferable skills that will be invaluable.

Absolutely, the interns would go for drinks at least once or twice a week. Situation by Leadenhall Market is a blessing and allows us to have a thriving social scene. Insurance is a social industry and with good people around, the social aspect is one of the main benefits of going into the industry.

We are in the centre of London, as such of course it is bound to be quite expensive. However, as a paid intern you should still be fine on the financial front.

Similar to above, being in the centre of London means a thriving nightlife. More common is after work drinks rather than going clubbing, however this is a good area to work in.

Yes for sure. There are lots of opportunities to do other activities, such as 5-a-side football, touch rugby or charity runs. There are tons of different ways to be involved in other activities, whatever you would like to do in your spare time.