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Rating
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About You
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The Company
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Everything Else
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy the insight?
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued during your time at the company or firm?
- 3. How much guidance/support did you receive during the insight?
- 4. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and information you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
- 5. How well structured was the insight?
- 6. How was the general atmosphere during your insight?
- 7. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
- 8. To what extent did the insight help you to understand what it would be like to have a full time role with the company or firm?
- 9. How much did the insight help you in understanding the company culture?
- 10. How valuable was the content in helping you to decide on your future career path?
- 11. Were you paid or reimbursed adequately for this experience?
- 12. Were there opportunities for networking and meeting other employees of the company or firm?
- 13. How were the networking/ social event opportunities?
- 14. Did you find out about activities that employees can get involved in outside of work?
- 15. Would you recommend this insight to a friend?
About You
Campus Ambassadors were grouped with younger work experience students
I didn't feel like I was contributing to anything particularly important but I did do some tasks which were useful to my colleagues
From my trainee this was brilliant, but no one else really offered much support
I didn't
The Company
Well structured for work experience students, but campus ambassadors were grouped with work experience students and, as a CA, I obviously knew the firm pretty well already, so was being fed information it had been my role all year to know intimately.
Generally a good place to work
There were few development related tasks
I have a reasonably good idea of what working at Freshfields would be like
the socials were great - I'd have liked to have been shown more of the extra-curric stuff the comany do though!
Remain interested in commercial law and magic circle law firms
Everything Else
Yes this was done REALLY well
These were really good fun!
Yes lots of info on pro-bono, but would have liked to know more about 'extra-curricular' work
I'm sure I'd recommend working at Freshfields, and doing a vacation scheme, but they didn't get this one right - Campus Ambassadors shouldn't be treated like Year 12 work experience students.
Details
Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
London
April 2013