Marketing Intern Review

I really enjoyed it - there was a good vibe throughout with plenty of opportunities for self advancement. There was no sense of competition between interns, and we all enjoyed the challenge. It was also long enough - 8 weeks - to make one's mind up about whether they saw themselves there full time.

Valued to the extent that a company has the time to invest in interns. The HR team were very good at setting up a structured programme for us all. I got the impression that other full times employees we were not working directly with had less time for us, being busy most days.

Lots of supervision - the marketing team is a bit more relaxed than the other teams within Capital One and as such there was more guidance and support from managers and supervisors. Training mainly revolved around giving us the 'soft skills' necessary to create an impact with clients and Excel training.

Quite busy but not as much as other teams. The business stemmed from the variety of tasks we were doing - from meetings and calls to clients, to tell interviews, to social media and training. Every day was quite full on in this respect, but the intensive of the individual activities was ok.

A lot of responsibility given that I was 'only' an intern - at times I had control of the company's Twitter and Facebook accounts, and I was asked to contribute to many of the ideas gathered for social media. There was also a high degree of client interaction through meetings and interviews.

The internship helped me immensely with applying the concepts in my business management course. It has also confirmed my decision to pursue a career in marketing, and more importantly I have taken up my offer of a full time job upon graduation. Should I want to leave marketing, then I have built up a lot of transferable skills.

Great atmosphere, owing to the high number of interns working. We also interacted a lot with the younger full time workers. As mentioned, older workers had other commitments a lot of the time, but this did not prevent them from participating in making us feel welcome around the office and part of the Capital One culture.

Well organised during the internship but less well organised during the application process. This is because there were large intervals between the different rounds of the application process and communication was not always great. However, during the internship this was reversed and I felt like they invest a lot in interns to attract them back.

A lot - they viewed us as potential employees and therefore invested quite a lot in a comprehensive training programme for all interns. This brought us up to a decent level and I would say enabled most interns to be in a position to carry out their work in the same manner as full time workers by the end of the internship.

Great - Capital One are a big name in the finance/credit scene and so doing an internship there has helped me with full time applications for other places however, I have decided to return to Capital One in the marketing team, and am already confident that I have the skillset necessary to transfer to other teams if I want to.

Greta - there were many opportunities to interact with people at all levels of the firm both inside and out of work. There was also some collaboration, particularly, in the marketing department, with all other teams - owing the the varied nature of the role. I was therefore quite lucky in this respect.

Quite good - Nottingham is relatively cheap although average for the Midlands. It helped that I lived at home as I lived locally, and I therefore did not have to pay any accomodation costs, although I did have to spent a bit on commuting. A lot of free meals were offered and so this helped as well.

Good

A lot of opportunities - many interns partied at the weekend, and there were a few after work clubs such as football, table tennis, gaming etc. There were also social events, and there was a high turnout from both interns and recent graduates which created a good social scene for all.