Winter Vacation Scheme Studen Review
by A&O Shearman
This review was submitted over 4 years ago, so some of the information it contains may no longer be relevant.
Rating
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About You
4.5
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The Company
4.7
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Everything Else
5.0
- 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
I really enjoyed my time here!
Even though it was difficult to deliver valuable results in such a small time at the firm, I felt like the work that I did contributed to the team.`
Lots! The firm was brilliant at supporting us.
A great amount! My practical experience has benefited my approach to work and will no doubt be invaluable when completing the GDL and LPC.
The Company
Immensely well structured and organised - I always knew what was going on and felt like there was a strong supporting structure behind the week!
Positive and collaborative - it has been the best professional atmosphere I have experienced to date.
A huge amount of time was spent in feeding back on different elements of the scheme - be it individual pieces of work or exercises outside of our departmental team.
It helped me enormously! It made me realise that working here would be incredible!
We had a vast amount of exposure to different people in the firm. This gave of a distinct sense of the firm's attitudes, approaches, and values. "Culture" is sometimes nebulous, difficult to define, and used by firms that don't really know what it means. This is not the case at A&O where the community has distinct values of collaboration and innovation which are at the core of its working approach.
It was personally very helpful in confirming that I wanted a career in international commercial law.
Everything Else
The scheme was paid in line with similar schemes of firms of a similar standing.
Yes! Lots! The firm's best assets are its people and A&O were keen to expose us to as many of them as possible - this included partners, associates, trainees and support staff. We also had a meeting with the firm's Worldwide Senior Partner. How many firms put vacation scheme students in front of their most senior people?!
Enjoyable and well planned. This included ice skating and two evening meals with different people in the firm - one of these was at the top of the Gherkin!
Yes! We had the opportunity to go to the firm's carol concert and were made welcome at a vast array of extra-professional activities including intramural sports, music groups, and the firm's private gym.
Every day! I think it would eventually get tedious for them.
Details
Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
London
December 2014
