ActuarialConsultant Review
by WTW
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at WTW
- 7. Would you recommend WTW to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to WTW
Overview
Internal and client meetings, individual calculations of Transfer Values for members of schemes that are set to retire. Monthly basis updates (differ from scheme-to-scheme) to keep any calculations up to date on most recent market conditions
Skills
Excel training, internal software, pensions legislation history, calculating/ revaluing pensions over time, research & presentation skills
Responsibilities
Yes, I was treated as a graduate and given full responsibility of work - as there is a good review process in place, you are able to make mistakes that will be picked up before it reaches the client. Opportunities to sit in on client meetings
Support & Guidance
Colleagues were always available for questions on Teams chats and calls, and multiple 'catch-up' sessions were in place to talk through any more general support I needed
Culture
Very sociable (particularly as it was Summer), with lots of events to attend to meet colleagues. The interns arranged a social event after work which was attended by around 50 colleagues.
Your Impressions
It was an amazing placement - I learnt a lot about the pensions industry and the workplace in general and built a strong network of friends and colleagues
Yes
Be open to learning - as Retirement/Actuarial Sciences is quite a niche area (particularly if not studied for your university degree) there is a lot of learning and training to undertake so be enthusiastic and prepared
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Actuary
London
August 2022
