VAT e-file team member Review

From the beginning to end I greatly enjoyed working with PwC. The introduction and training allowed me to settled into my role really quickly in order to give me the skills to complete my job within my project. When put into my project all my colleagues were so helpful and allowed me to gain confidence in errors that I would of struggled with.

I felt my colleagues valued me highly and that I was a key member of my team. I would receive regular feedback from my colleagues and they always highlighted my impact to our team and how they felt my attribution helped to our teams succession due to my nature of creating guides.

My supervisor arranged a meeting everyone month in order to check in on me. During this we would overlook what I achieved in the months previous and look towards any points of improvement. We additionally would set targets together for the month ahead to overlook at our next meeting together.

My project was very busy and due to providing VAT related services we were busy on very month end but we then had time in the middle of every month to go back over other tasks. As my job was often changing to new systems or procedures I was kept busy with training to learn these new methods.

As my project was based upon myself and two other placement students we were all given a large proportion of the responsibility from beginning to the end of my placement. Technically we were given sole responsibility of the project and so its succession and the responsibility to all of our thousands of clients lay in our hands.

I feel the organisational and confidence skills will go a long way in adapting and taking these with me in my final year degree studies. I am hoping to ensure my nine to five work ethic will be transfered into my studies so that I can treat my degree as a job that needs completed, especially now that the recent pandemic means I will be learning remotely.

The atmosphere of my job was serious but only when was needed. There was large amounts of stress during month end and so the atmosphere during then was harsh but when it came to times after this we were able to ease tension and do our job in a relaxed atmosphere.

From the beginning we were told our schedule ahead for our training week and were given laptops and other various tools that would enable our jobs. The following week we were then told where to meet and from then onwards we were introduced to our managerial colleagues who looked over us from then onwards.

The only invested in the beginning by using our first week to ensure we settled in and met other placement students by conducting icebreakers and other introductory training activities. The also fund a team to be set up to organise monthly events for those also completing a placement to meet up and share experiences.

As I have been offered a graduate job with PwC and am accepting this offer I feel that future prospects of returning to the firm are strong. Not only this but they offered that I stay on beyond my placement end date and I additionally accepted this due to the enjoyment I get from my job.

PwC has a great social scene as they have an annual dinner occuring during christmas that allows everyone to join together for a formal event. The firm also holds an event on the first Friday of every month and this allows us to meet our fellow colleagues and placement students.

As I lived in student accommodation living of rent were around £250 per month as Belfast is not an expensive city to live in. It has great social scene with many eateries and nightclubs. Not only this but closely outside of the proximity of Belfast there are many places to go outdoors.

Belfast is far from a city that never sleeps but it does have many restaurants and pubs that open to a reasonable hour and this allows time to socialise after work. As my office is fixed with the city centre these are thankfully all in close proximity to my office.

As I am involved in many sporting and volunteering activities outside of work at home I did not outsource to find out any clubs or societies. To my knowledge there was colleagues that met up to play netball and there was always charitable events on that anyone could get involved in.