Student Recruitment Review

I really enjoyed this placement in the recruitment team at PwC. Throughout the year I was given a lot more responsibility and the role was really varied.

I was given lots of responsibility towards the end of the year which helped me feel valued by my team.

I was assigned a people manager and an informal buddy who I met with regularly to discuss development goals and go over feedback I had obtained. They helped me to set some performance goals that I was assessed against at the end of the year.

During busy season there were definitely a few late nights but that was just to high volumes of candidates applying to PwC, during the summer months it got a lot quieter and I was able to get involved in different projects that I would not normally be involved in.

As the year progressed I was given more responsibility over processing applications as well as running assessment days.

This was great experience working in a large office environment which I did not previous have so that will help a lot when applying for graduate jobs, but in terms of my degree I learned lots of excel that I am sure will help back at University.

My team was extremely sociable as was the rest of the office with regular team lunches and nights out, as well as whole office charity events etc.

I did not find out which role I had been placed in until a few weeks before joining the firm, which could have been communicated to me earlier, but overall it has run very smoothly.

I was sent on multiple training courses at the beginning of my placement that would allow me to run assessment days and assess students in the group exercise element of the assessment day. I was also allowed to complete shadowing in other areas of PwC which really helped my development.

Very appealing, I will be applying for a graduate position in a different area of PwC, but would also consider going back into Student Recruitment

Being in HR and not in Audit like all the other placement students meant that there was slight segregation, however out of the 9 HR placement students there was a good social scene, regular lunches and a few nights out!

My office was based at London Bridge so it was fairly expensive to go out after work, but thats just London!

We would generally go to pubs/bars near the office but if we were heading for a night out it could have been anywhere over London.

There were lots of sports teams, but generally you were left to find them yourself on the PwC intranet which was quite simple. There were often charity events that the whole firm was encouraged to get involved with etc as well as a pantomime, sailing trip and lots more.