Intern Review

Had a great month at CBRE - mainly down to the people. Very supportive and friendly and encouraged you to be proactive and independent. Was given varied work, but would have liked to been given a bit more responsibility.

My team (Residential Valuation) were very welcoming, and I felt included in after work activities and social events. By the end of the month, I was being given lots to do by everyone without having to ask, which was great.

Had a beginning and end of internship meeting with my manager and mentor, as well as a 1:1 with a member of HR in between.

Yes, I was given a project to work on throughout the month. As well as this, I attended plenty of Site visits and inspections (6), which were great to get out of the office and see something different. By the end of the month I was getting busier as was getting given more small jobs by lots of people.

I was given plenty of work to do, but nothing of high importance or client facing.

The skills I developed would be key if I go on to study a masters in real estate. Coming into the internship, I didn't know much about property, so the technical knowledge I learnt is invaluable in terms of getting to know the industry and skills I'd need. I received lots of training on presenting, In two sessions and also had to present twice (once alone, once in a group). Presenting is always a useful life skill which will hopefully help me when i have to present at University, assessment days and work.

A very friendly and non-hierarchical office. There is a very open plan layout, that means if you need to go find someone from another team it was easy. There is a hot-desking policy within teams, which means you get to chat to different people every day. You are encourage to go get coffee's with people from other departments, and everyone i asked for a chat/coffee was more than willing and very helpful.

There was lots of events organised - we had presentations from three different departments within the business to learn what they do. Our first day was an induction day which was very well run. The second day was a group site visit, which was well organised, and our final presentation drinks were good too. These set events were great. However, I think that the teams themselves could have been more organised and prepared better for their incoming intern, in terms of getting work for them to do/their IT details ect.

We were given plenty of presentation skills training, which was well delivered and very helpful. On the first day we were given a booklet to fill in with our personal development/what we were learning, but this was never reviewed. I think that this could have been used more effectively in terms of personal development.

There was plenty of exposure to current graduates on the graduate scheme. The scheme seems excellence, in terms of both work development, organisation and the social aspect. Further to this, the company was an exciting and very open place to work with lots of opportunities for the best people to work their way up.

There was no social events planned amongst fellow interns. However, there were a few informal after work pub trips and an Intern group chat. It was great getting to know interns in my office at lunch ect, but because the intern cohort was spread across three offices it made it more difficult to the whole group to socialise.

West London, so very expensive.

Good, but again expensive!

Yes there was a softball competition after work, wine tasting and pub trips. However, I'd like to see more varied actives after work that didn't all involve drinking!