Investments Summer Intern Review

by abrdn

Rating

4.7/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Introductory level role into asset management. Day-to-day work involves attending meetings with the team and external clients/ fund managers, completing data tasks (e.g. Excel, Morningstar), a lot of networking, conducting research for the team, attending intern development activities, working towards your final objective project.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Investing technical skills A lot of new software skills (e.g. Excel, Morningstar, Bloomber, Style) Networking & communication skills Research skills time management

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • More admin/ data tasks, networking and meeting-shadowing in the first few weeks. In the latter half, I was given individual big projects to work towards, with guidance from senior members of the team

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Quite a lot - everyone in my team was very approachable, and when I wanted to chat with people from other teams, they were all very friendly

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • It was hard to say as the internship was virtual... But everyone I spoke to was very nice and approachable

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • I really enjoyed networking with a wide range of people and being given more responsibility in the second half of the internship

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 5/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at abrdn

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend abrdn to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to abrdn

    • Show that you have strong communication skills and you are keen to learn and network. ESG is also a strong focus of the company investment ethos - so look into that

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Financial Management

London

August 2021

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