Management Trainee (Intern) Review

Enterprise is an organisation that is growly very rapidly, thus they are always recruiting and have a very well established Management Training program which can be started by graduates or placement students. It is hard work and you'll always be busy but gives you invaluable skills and the prospect of returning and getting promoted quickly is almost guarenteed if you are competent and enjoy the work.

Enterprise branches typically have between 5-8 staff so you'll always be an integral part of the team with so much work to complete daily.

I had a change of managers half way through my placement, which was good as it has shown me different leadership styles, and the support from my branch colleagues as well as my area manager and the training team will help me complete my training folder this year making my placement a success.

Let's be clear - the basic working week is 50 hours, so the job requires hard work and commitment. The aim at Enterprise is basically to rent 90% of the cars on your fleet everyday, some days this will be easy and you'll have time to get lots of other activities such as marketing and networking done, whereas others will be absorbed by driving for much of the day when we are very busy.

The level of responsibility increases as you progress through the training folder. After a few months you get to start 'office running', essentially meaning that you are responsible for coordinating the team and the fleet for the day to make sure all customers receive the right car at the right time- which can be a lot more challenging (but ultimately rewarding) than it sounds.

Enterprise really does feel like you are in control of the business, with a strong focus on the four key areas: profitability, growth, employee development and customer service. These skills are invaluable for any business so they are definitelt transferrable.

Working with the same 7 people for 50+ hours per week means of course that there will be fun times, and times when there are disagreements, but on the whole I have enjoyed going to work and being a valued member of my team.

Throughout the year there are various training classes at the regional head office, which are well organised, valuable, and a nice break from the office. The four part training folder with an interview at the end is a well structured programme which gives you a clear idea of how well you are progressing and what needs to be done to progress in the short and medium term.

As I said, you are an invaluable team member as soon as you start with Enterprise. Half of Enterprise's new recruits leave within their first year - it's a job that either fits you or it doesn't. At no point did I feel I had been forgotten about and always knew who to speak to if I needed assistance or advice.

I have agreed to stay on full time through the summer with Enterprise and then go down to part time when I go back to university, my future prospects within the company look good and there will be a job for me if I want it.

Everyone in the branch got on and we would all go on nights out at least once a month - some of them the company even paid for!

I lived at home during my placement year so my living costs were very low - Hull is a cheap place to live regardless!

Hull's nightlife is good and varied and there is a decent student population.

Other than a general social scene, we didn't organise specific company activities.