Network Administrator Review

Great experience and it definately prepares you for your final year. Sometimes you do get bored but when you do get work, its work that will stretch you and bring out the best in you. The placement here did make me a more motivated, well-spoken person and built upon my existing skills. The money is good too and you realise the value of it when you get back to being in University! I made some great contacts while I was here and it was the reason I am back working at the company. The experience was highly valuable and I learnt more in my one year here, than at the 3 years at University!

Great people, make you feel welcomed and don't treat you like a student. You also get given full responsibility of high profile tasks.

Management and colleagues were always available for issues and were fully understanding of any problems I had. They always worked with me and gave me assistance but never held my hand and did the work for me which was great in building my skills.

Sometimes I was bored as I did not posess the technical knowledge to do my role which was eventually gained throughout the placement. Although, when I spoke to others who were on more business related roles, they had sufficient amounts of work to do.

The tasks I was given, were high profile and highly important to the success of some of the initiatives being undertaken.

Priceless! Business, technical and personal skills all developed in manner that cannot be taught in a lecture!

Open office, however some people were glued to their screens while others were friendly and sociable.

My placement was transitioned from Accenture and they had ran it badly from the start. CSC took over the NHS account and we were the first placement students and there were some teething problems, however towards the end, the placement took a more structured approach and the current scheme seems fantastic compared to two years ago.

I did not receive any financed training, however I was trained locally by my team mates on a regular basis. This helped me develop my skills at an exponential rate.

Your placement is what you make of it. If you work hard and make a good impression, there is no reason why CSC would not take you back after university. This also saves you a lot of time with applications. CSC is a great company to work for as it has a great human resource focus and it places significant emphasis on its people.

You are all in the same boat and so speaking to each other (people your age) makes you feel more comfortable and other placement students are always willing to talk to you about their experiences.

Very reasonable if you live in student accomodation. Student nights are every night and very cheap.

The Leeds office is in the city centre and the nightlife here is very cheap and full of students on weekdays and some weekends. Young sociable scene.

Plenty of stuff to do if you wanted to do it. I took up taekwondo and am still there today. a lot of things happening near the city.