News Intern Review
by Bloomberg
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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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 Bloomberg
- 7. Would you recommend Bloomberg to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Bloomberg
Overview
Morning meeting, conversations with source, writing and editing feedback from TLs, crunching data, making charts, finding leads, pitching stories, meeting with senior newsroom leaders
Skills
- presenting data, - writing and editing - pitching! - identifying non-stories - getting around PR lingo
Responsibilities
Yes - trusted with big stories from the beginning!
Support & Guidance
Regular 1:1s, meetings with BCs - but could have been made clear that a lot of responsibility falls on interns to seek out feedback
Culture
Collaboration and communication is definitely encouraged, which was great. Atmosphere was always warm and friendly, though still professional
Your Impressions
Very much - cannot really fault it
Yes
Think about your application carefully - cater it very tightly to what the job description says
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Journalism & Publishing
London
August 2024
