Placement Sandwich Student Review

I was apprehensive at first about joining such a large company and working in the utilities sector. However, I am taken aback how approachable and helpful people in every position have been. You are given lots of responsibility and work is thick and fast. Work is also varied and challenging.

When starting I was expecting to be given large amounts of tedious work that you often associate with your placement year. I was very wrong. Colleagues value your input on work and are very respectful and helpful around the type of work given.

The APC process at Fisher German is the best on offer in my experience. There is a solid framework in place to ensure the upmost help and support is given around this process from an early stage to ensure the best results possible. Support and guidance is also excellent for every day to day work. You are given a supervisor to work under as a placement student who are more than happy to help with everything.

I was very busy from day dot. I had a large workload which I was grateful for as I like being challenged and busy. However, my supervisor was excellent at managing my workload and we booked in several workload catch ups whenever needed. Systems were put in place to ensure others in my office could see my workload and make sure I did not have too much on.

You are given proper work to do with responsibility from day one. The supervisor to start off with checks everything you do and is there for questions and queries. Slowly you become more independent and start to take more responsibility on yourself but the support framework is still there for any queries.

I have become far more confident in a lot of aspects that I am continuing to develop. I have learnt a lot through doing work associated with topics from my degree that I before struggled to get my head around. I was encouraged to take time out of the day to research things I was working on to increase my knowledge such as valuations and planning permissions.

Obviously starting my placement in 2020 has bought with it problems that would not normally affect the office environment. Working from home has lead to offices being quieter than usual. However, a team was created to ensure we got as much office working exposure as possible by grouping together all new starters and their supervisors and providing office space which created a really nice 'buzz'.

Everything went off without a hitch.

All CPD days and memberships are paid for by the firm. As well as the normal APC supervisor and counsellor you also get an APC doctor at FG. [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyPlacement Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] told us at our specific grad day that our main aim was to pass our APC which was very reassuring.

Due to how friendly an environment and the quality of the APC process at FG it is a serious prospect to come back as a graduate.

During Covid things were pretty slow. However I joined the local rugby club and a gym for things to do. Work also organised a night were we played football.

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