Summer Intern Review

I have really enjoyed my time with Atos Healthcare. The team I have been working on have all been very supportive and have been a pleasure to work with

I felt very valued by my colleagues. Although some of the tasks were a little menial, they always gave me a lot of feedback and were very appreciative of the work that I was doing

This was a little tricky at times as the rest of my team was based at another location and therefore all support and guidance was given over the phone. Despite this tricky situation, the team were as supportive as they could have been

I was given an ongoing project for the 12 weeks, however, this didn't end up taking as long as expected. I was also given work to do by various members of the team. However, there were numerous occasions where I had finished all my work for the day and was just waiting for 5 o'clock to come.

I was given a lot of responsibility, especially as I was running my own project which I had to develop and then present to the senior managers

The skills I have developed working in the business environment will prove vital when working in the future. However, we received very little formal training

The nature of the business means that people working on different contracts are spread across the country. There are very few healthcare people who work in the London office, however, I found that often there is a lot of chat between teams but very little cross contract socialising. Given I was the only person from my contract working in London I found this quite hard.

I don't think this internship was particularly well set up. There were only 2 interns in my office which means that there weren't many opportunities to socialise with other interns. There was also very little formal training provided and therefore it seems like this is more like a job than an internship. There were no organised social activities and I feel like this is something I have missed out on when compared to other internships

There was one intern training day which I attended which covered communication in the workplace, but that was it.

They have offered me a job

Since there were only 2 interns in healthcare, the social scene was pretty poor. We were very fortunate in that we got on really well with each other and ate lunch together everyday. However, there were no social activities organised by the company

Central London so living and socialising is very expensive

London so obviously the nightlife is great

I was never made aware of any activites which took place outside of work