Capital Markets Intern Review

The Strategic Asset Management team at JLL manage a number of portfolios, with assets all across the UK. My role included helping the Asset Managers with legal paperwork, formulating excel spreadsheets, cross referencing, preparing for pitches, and general work that they needed an extra pair of hands working on, much of which had a ESG focus. As interns we were also tasked with preparing a presentation in groups to present to employees within JLL which was both exciting and challenging.

I have both developed existing and learnt a number of new skills as a result of internship at JLL. My personable and communicative skills have increased dramatically after the environment I was exposed to, it was both fast paced, and people focused, driving me to use these skills daily. Due to the exposure of the Real Estate industry I gained, I have also learnt a huge amount about the sector. More than I ever imagined, the insight which I have gained is invaluable and has excelled my eagerness to pursue a career in this field.

I was given a great amount of responsibility during my internship. I had the opportunity to lead a sustainability improvement project across a portfolio where I created a plan to implement and then presented to senior asset managers, resulting in its approval.

I received a great deal of support throughout my six-weeks. I was allocated a line manager who was absolutely excellent. He made my time at JLL extremely enjoyable, any issues/questions that I had he would willingly respond and help me with as soon as he got the time. Everybody across JLL was also extremely warm and welcoming, this added to the overall positive atmosphere of the office!

The atmosphere across the company was better than I could have ever imagined. Everybody was always willing to help. We were encourage to reach out to as many people as we could, it didn’t matter how senior they were, everybody was always willing to meet up. There are also numerous social activities, I participated with the JLL touch rugby which was a great chance to network and meet new people from JLL and other companies!

I enjoyed my internship to a very great extent, it exceeded my expectations to what the corporate work would be like. The people, the work, the opportunities that I was exposed to were exceptional and I was disappointed by the end that it was only six-weeks!

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Ensure that you have knowledge of the industry before applying. I made sure that I was up to date with all that was occuring within the markets and the effect that it would be directly having on JLL. This way you can directly relate with your interviewer, no matter what team they are in.