Client Executive Review

I was somewhere different each week, meeting new people and experiencing different parts of the business. In sales you tend to touch a lot of areas of business other than your own. Great experience.

My role was a very independent one so at times you can feel forgotten about, you shouldn't though. 95% of the people I met were great to work with and very encouraging when you did get their time. Everyone had advice to give.

Again my role was very independent so I had to seek out the guidance rather than having a regular meeting about it. However, the support was there when asked for and I was encouraged to take time out of one day fortnightly to work on personal development.

For me the peaks and lows were a good balance. Being incredibly busy one week and a bit more relaxed the next worked well. Also when I was needed to work late or into a weekend I was rewarded with time off later.

I don't believe there is another internship running in the UK that will give you this much responsibility. I was expected too meet client on my own at times, manage relationships, sell Verizon's services with very little support. Not straight away of course!

The effect on my ability to work independently in an massive corporation will put me in a great position when applying for grad jobs. The business acumen I've gained should help me in my final year as study Economics and Business. Countless skills on top of this that I don't think this text box has enough space for. Think management, negotiation, analytical skills.

The London office could sometimes feel a bid like a morgue, this started to improve as I was leaving. There were opportunities to go out after work. The Reading based interns went out together as well and I had lunch with them whenever I was there. I was based in Oxford and London throughout my placement so I'm not best placed to comment of the Reading office, it seemed fine.

The independent nature of the role makes it hard to answer this. My role did progress logically as I became more skilled and asked for more work.

Loads of training available on the Verizon intranet from excel master-classes to sales 101s. Loads of opportunities to go to desk based training as well at least one every 2 months. This was for the entire sales organisation too, not just the interns so it was good real world training.

If a decent graduate programme was presented to me I would be interested. At this stage there isn't one as far as I know.

I made friends with the other interns but didn't spend enough time in Reading to answer this question properly. They all went out together and Reading has a huge intern base with a Facebook group for getting people together for nights out etc.

Lived in my university town, can't comment

I worked in London most of the time so it was brilliant. In Reading though I can't comment.

I took part in a half marathon and a triathlon with one of our clients and senior leadership team through the relationships we fostered with them. Went out with my team in London plenty of times. Great memories.