Public sector assurance intern Review
by BDO
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 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 BDO
- 7. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BDO
Overview
Engaged in client work on a variety of public sector clients. These are predominantly NHS trusts and Local government councils. Assited with testing procedures as part of the audit process.
Skills
Learnt alot of new skills on excel, lookup forumlae, nested formulae etc. Worked in a variety of teams of varying size, so improved my communication and teamwork skills.
Responsibilities
For the first two weeks a project was assigned to myself and the other intern within my team. This was completed soley by ourselves and therefore represented a large responsibility. Apart from this the nature of the work required constant checking by more experiened staff and therefore involved less responsibilty, however we were given the chance to complete tasks on our own.
Support & Guidance
Intial training was conducted at an external venue, this was very helpful. Beyond this more senior staff members were always on hand to answer questions.
Culture
The company culture was brilliant. Hard working but relaxed and inculsive.
Your Impressions
The experience was invauable looking forward into the future.
Yes
The culture is great. If you can find a good department to work in then it is definitely a good place to work.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Accounting
East of England
August 2022
