Actuarial summer intern Review
by BDO
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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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 BDO
- 7. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BDO
Overview
Worked with the team to learn about actuarial processes and about the insurance market. Worked on taking client data and processing them in formats to carry out calculations. Developed skills within Excel and PowerBI to help process and display the data.
Skills
I have developed my Excel skills and learnt how to use PowerQuery and PowerBI.
Responsibilities
Yes, we were given quite a few tasks to do based on the concepts we learnt about during our training.
Support & Guidance
We received a lot of support and guidance from members within the team.
Culture
Everyone is very supportive and inclusive. You can approach people regardless of their seniority.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed it very much as I learnt a significant amount about the industry and was able to apply this newly gained knowledge.
Yes
Make sure to learn about the culture at BDO as this is a huge part of their work.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Actuary
London
August 2023
