Operations Advisor Review

It was very intense as you are thrown into the deep end right away but the experience and values that it has taught me is priceless! You really do have the ability to do anything you like and really apply your skills to the work you do.

Here at IBM you are not treated as an intern, you are looked at as a colleague and given a lot of respect and responsibilities. You never have a manager constantly looking over you and for me this felt like i was highly valued and the work i did for my team really added value.

You are given a professional development manager as well as a task manager, and they are there when you need them. I didn't really need to talk to them much but there is plenty of support available when you need it. Sometimes they can be rather difficult to reach though.

I was kept very busy in my role as i had multiple tasks to complete often. However i know many others who were left with no work at times and spent their time simply on youtube. You need to ask for work sometimes but in order to make the most of your placement you need to identify times and opportunities to make more work for yourself.

Alot! The work is given to you and left to you to complete. Sometimes i was given really big projects to run and the work that i was given to complete really made a difference to the team! Often we would be submitting bids and proposals and if we messed up it could mean our team loosing millions!

Although my role didn't directly link with Psychology, it did teach me a lot about talking to different types of people and people in senior roles, giving me confidence. It also gave me more insights into the selling techniques and ways of establishing/maintaining client relationships./

It is often very quiet and not as social as i would have liked it to be. I was the youngest in my team and most of the time, because mobile working is encouraged, my team were not around. However, some offices i had worked in were much more better than others.

Very well, they have a lot of meetings, educational sessions and socials set up and it is structured really well! You are all placed in a foundation society and received emails frequently about what is happening etc. The work side of things are a little less organised as it is up to your manager to set that.

IBM offers various courses and educational teachings as part of their Think40 programme. There are also multiple ways of training but directly they do not invest in you. You have to make the effort to learn yourself. I managed to get in touch with one of the leaders of the Sales School for IBM in hope to do a day of shadowing there.

Very appealing. The company allows you to work from home quite often, depending on your role, and this is very appealing to me. All graduates start on £30k which is very good for when leaving university straight into a job. I think the opportunities at this company are endless.

Yes, every Thursday we would go for drinks at the local pub and we would have Christmas parties. There were a lot of weekend events organised too. But this differs according to the base locations.

London is very exp! Although the experience was amazing, i wasn't able to save as much as anticipated, and many others did struggle. However, IBM do pay you 3 grand more for living in the capital city.

Amazing, as you can imagine London is very vibrant but as it is expensive, we didn't go out much

Not really