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Rating
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The Role
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The Company
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The Culture
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?
- 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?
- 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?
- 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?
- 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
- 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?
- 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?
- 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
- 10. What were the perks on your work placement?
- 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?
- 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?
- 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?
- 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?
- 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?
The Role
I enjoyed my work placement really very much because on the first day i got to work with amex (American express for those not in the know) I then learnt all about how money is made and not only where it came from but also where is it going and how it gets there. My manager was really really nice and made my internship super lovely.
I certainly felt valued by my collegues because on the first day I was taken under the wing of debbie and have not even looked back eversice then. My team always gives me feedback and this one time I had to run to victoria with a package and it was actually quite easy but I was still praised like a king of all kings when I succeeded.
There was always an ear to shout/whisper into and a shoulder to cry on though I didn't even need to because crying is not very businesslike. We caught up every now and then which was often enough for me but not so often as to be an incovience ot me or my superiors. I especially liked our lunched when they came along once every blue moon!
On a daily basis I was as busy as I wanted to be. There is no more true statement a wise man once told me that you get out fo life what you put into it and the exact same can be said for my placement at LLoyds Banking Group. The good days were good and the bad days were bad but on reflection I believe it aws really my attitude and drive that oscillated over those ten weeks and not the work itself.
I was given more responsibility than I would've given me which is saying something because I consider myself more than capable at most any task. I enjoyed the steep learning curve that came with the job. This all ties into the complex support structure that I was lucky enough to be a part of at Lloyds which meant I could swim in pools of responsibility without drowning accidentally.
I think that my ability to just get up and go no matter what. How I was feeling or how much sleep I'd had or what the weather was like or even if the housemates were acting up. I've learnt to control my emotions and put them to good use just like when cyclops off the X-men learns to control his lazer vision and becomes even more impressive because of it.
The Company
The general atmosphere in my office could be described either as tranquil or as peaceful or as boring but really it depends on what you like your boat being floated with. I personally found my office a little off pitch and was really struggling to hit the highs on it's big end of song solo and that is why I do not think it has the X factor and deserves a four.
The internship scheme is bigger than a blue whale if we're measuring in volume rather than mass, therefore I think the Lloyds internship was set up as well as it possibly could've been without the use of robots from the future. I am giving this placement a 9 because perfect is just a concept not a reality man and robots from the future would hate me if I left all possibility of them improving things out and if there's one thing I've learned at Lloyds it's to not mess with robots from the future.
The company bought when my shares were low and I think are not going to sell for atleast another 22 years when my age is 43 years in total, this is because mathematical models have predicated that this is when my stocks willl be worth the msot and who are we to trust ifnot the mathematicians? The Pope? The Dali Llama? Llana del ray? the answer is none.
National Travel
It depends on what kind've prospects I could be prospecting. What you really need when designing a new product is a unique selling point that you can then patent and steal from the rest of the world for 20 years or until you're bored of it (whichever comes first). The same can be said for an organisation and this organisation has little to no unique sellking points and that theo, is why i'm out.
The Culture
I don't need friends because I think that emotions are a weakness and I am nothing if not strong. That said my little birds tell me that if one wanted to let their guard down in such an unproductive and irresponsible manner that there was one or two things like eating a pizza or just settling down for a netflix and chill that
I was habitating the city of London which as some of you will or won't or might know is the most expensive planet in the entire solarsystem. This is because tiny insects, called money spiders, tend to creep and crawl into ones pockets and nibble away at your 5 and ten pound notes. they don't really like 50 pound notes but they're a rarity anyway so it doesn't really impact their breeding cycle.
Nightlife was fantastic, I love clubbing and seeing my mates the owls and badgers and sometimes a rare urban fox. The rare urban fox is my favourite nighttime friend but also the most elusive, that said, I always buy him a drink when I see him despite money spiders nibbling at my pockets because the urban fox is a well known good luck symbol and what goes around comes around afteralll.
I had more oppourtunities than you could shake an oyster card at however the exceptional amount of choice is this vibrant metropolis that we call london town, rather than spurring me into actipon and doing loads of things, instead paralysed me like when weedle off pokemon (the devolution of beedrill) uses and just paralyses your pokemon and he can't be used for 5 turns. That was me.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
London
August 2015