Intern Review

As always with consultancy, it often depends on the client and projects that you tend to work on. Personally I had a mixed experience, one project that I really enjoyed working on, and another project that I didn't particularly enjoy. However, compared to lots of other consultancies, North Highland tends to have good roles.

The people are probably one of the best parts of North Highland. Interns are always treated as analysts (graduate roles), which is a massive plus point.

Each intern is allocated a Counselling Manager (CM) who is always available if there are any problems , and interns tend to have monthly catchups with their CMs. On client site, each intern is allocated an Engagement Lead (EL), who is responsible for the day to day management.

Consultancy has ups and downs, however in my second role there were definitely times where I wish I'd had more work to do, and also more challenging work. However, I tried to fill this time by doing internal initiatives, such as work for the Community Team.

At North Highland, people are trusted with large amounts of responsibility. However, yet again it does depend on the roles you are given.

The training opportunities at North Highland are absolutely fantastic. Some courses are run by internal North Highlanders (e.g. Excel), whereas there are other training courses that are run by specialist L&D consultants. Overall I've really enjoyed the training opportunities North Highland has provided, and believe these will be very useful in my future career.

It's a pretty cool and quirky office, there's even a tortoise and pick and mix. Also, people are always willing to chat and go for lunch together which is nice.

North Highland (formely Qedis) have had interns for quite a few years, and are an important part of North Highland. It's definitely well organised.

There was always opportunities to go on different training courses, all of which were really interesting and useful. Overall, I think I spend about 15 days on various training courses.

There are quite a few people at North Highland who started as interns and have worked they way up.

Good social scene among the analysts. It also depends on the clients your on though, as the large teams often have drinks on a regular basis. There always tends to be drinks on Friday though.

London is expensive/

Large range of bars and pubs in Covent Garden. Some good happy hour deals too - for London anyway.

Lots! It's up to each individual to decide that they want to do. However, I worked with the community team to get an environmental certification, and also helped with a graduate recruitment campaign.