CPB Summer Intern Review
by NatWest Group
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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The Role
3.6
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The Company
2.5
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The Culture
2.6
- 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
People have to be the most important and significant aspect of my internship. I really enjoyed meeting the people there and they are so patient to show me what they do in the daily businesses. They also challenged me to contact the client on the phone and introduce myself to them. I learned awful lot of practical daily administrative jobs as well as the ability to organise forums and meetings with the senior members of the bank.
I feel valued by the colleagues as they continuously challenging me throughout the internship. My manager also introduced me to the whole floor where I was responsible to help around. I also got invited by the team to play cricket with the clients, having zero experience with cricket my team was able to help me and teach me on how to bat/ball. I was fortunately enough to ball out one of my clients.
I was given good support and guidance as my manager was the head of Portfolio so he hired someone else to guide me and he was really helpful and gave me a lot of insights to what he does and what I can help.
I was reasonably busy in the morning when I had to contact the client for them to adjust their excesses. I then was busy researching about compnaies we manage and write annual reviews as well. I also had the opportunities to go around the different divisions.
I was given reasonably amount of real world responsibilities including contacting the client for them to adjust the daily excess limit etc. I was also given the job to write annual reviews and submit them to credit.
I was definitely benefit from the internship as it gives me a good interpersonal skills. I can use this skills to apply to any where in my life and it hopefully gets me the position. I also managed to get quite a lot of contacts inside/outside the bank and it will help me in the future when I am trying to get a graduate role.
The Company
Really friendly and chilled
It was ok, although I do have the opportunity to move around the different divisions. We were given a HR project on diversity.
They invested quite a lot, I would say they definitely helped me understanding the day to day business of CPB.
Flexi Time
Sports and Social Club
It is good
The Culture
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
September 2015
