Commercial/corporate Intern Review

I felt that the internship was very enjoyable in summary. There were a lot of opportunities to get involved with other teams and work. The team I was placed in were very friendly and helpful, and were willing to help with the tasks I was carrying out. They could have introduced more opportunities and given better feedback throughout.

Although I thought I was part of the team throughout and got on really well with my colleagues, I felt that they were not always willing to share their feedback which I received at the end and thought that I could have really added more value, had I been given the opportunity to work on it beforehand.

Although I asked for regular feedback and my line managers were aware of this, they did not have the time to actually give back detailed advice. At the end, however, I was given more criticism but it was really unfortunate that I could not have been given this information before as I think I could have worked on it. I felt that on the surface everything appeared to be fine, as my line managers did not raise any concerns until the end, at which point it completely changed.

I was given quite a bit of work to do, but mostly admin tasks and of minor importance. I was given some more complex reports to work on but I was only able to assist on them. There were times were I was very busy but other times I did not have much to do, so it was very much a mix, there was no steady pace.

I was not given a lot of responsibility but have learnt now that you need to ask for it constantly and in other teams to do if you need to as they expect you to find your own tasks and manage responsibility. I was given some more complex things to do, but I was continuously supervised throughout the process.

I think that I have worked on my time management and my assertiveness in handling responsibility and working with colleagues. I think that the knowledge I have gained will probably help a lot beyond my studies and I hope that I can use and improve on my skills.

There seemed to be some tension, but in general everyone did get on which each other, and there weren't any major issues.

They managed to run the 10 week programme and set up events and interact with the interns well. However, I think there may have been too many interns - as there wasn't enough work for all of us to do.

As an intern there wasn't much training or development apart from the induction week which was quite good, as we had technical training learning about finance, and then excel training too.

I would like to work here in the short term but not sure about the opportunities.