Read Work Experience Reviews
Looking for work experience reviews? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve got thousands of reviews for career-hungry students like you. Use the filters to narrow down your search and read reviews written by students on placement years, summer internships, insight days or virtual internships.
1 - 20 of 229 results

Vacation Scheme Student
- Shoosmiths
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I was part of the Leeds office for the week It was incredibly insightful to be able to complete reallife trainee level tasks which further affirmed my desire to pursue a career in law at Shoosmiths Everyone within the office is genuinely so lovely and

Insight Programme participant
- CMS
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The daytoday was varied In the first week we completed skills sessions and learned about the firm itself often alongside other offices via teams We also visited another office for a day to complete an in person session with them In the second week I

Insight Scheme Participant
- CMS
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Over the course of two weeks we were exposed to a variety of activities We listened to talks by current trainees in which they explored their practice areas we attended skills sessions hosted by specialist legal skills providers we learned about the p

Work Experience Participant
- Irwin Mitchell
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Each day I worked on varying tasks set by a different departments within the firm I attended short coffee meetings with different fee earners which gave me the opportunity to ask any questions I had a learn more about their day to day work I got involve

Vacation Scheme
- Pinsent Masons LLP
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Complete live work for a supervisor senior associate and a trainee buddy Mixture of research tasks and more day to day administrative work Online talks also provided throughout the week in a variety of topics such as biodiversity and vario

Legal Work Placement
- Irwin Mitchell
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The placement lasted one week five working days As Irwin Mitchell splits its application process for Training Contracts into two streams Legal Services for Businesses or Legal Services for Individuals candidates on Legal Work Placement gain insight

Summer Vacation Scheme
- Gateley
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I spent a week in the Leeds office as part of their Summer Vacation Scheme which is the final stage of the recruitment process for a training contract I sat with the Employment Team and was exposed to real work including drafting and research tasks The

Summer Intern
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Conducted legal tasks including drafting summarising and performing in deptlegal research by conducting and interpreting different legislation Proofread documents ensuring quality and accuracy by checking grammar and spelling errors Expanded my co
Best Student Employer

LWP Student
- Irwin Mitchell
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The insight week was split between the different teams in the office Monday was an introduction and lunch with the early careers team Tuesday was a day with the banking and finance team Wednesday was corporate Thursday was employment and Friday was re

Summer Intern
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Completing tasks that trainee solicitors would commonly perform eg drafting documents researching and presenting information in a clientfriendly manner calling clients with enquiries sitting in on meetings Involved a lot of internal interaction eg
Best Student Employer

Vacation Scheme/Summer Internship
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
There were 3 stages to the summer internship It began with a 3 day induction at the London office where we met other interns from across the UK and Dublin My hotel and travel costs were paid for by the firm which was amazing The induction consisted of
Best Student Employer

Summer Intern
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Completing tasks depending on the seat and practice group you were in Included drafting and reviewing research and taking notes on client calls for instance Included verification work and maintenance of documents Worked alongside the team to complete
Best Student Employer

Summer Intern
- DLA Piper
- Internship (1 Month+)
I am an intern on the programmes summer internship I work across two different sectors throughout the three weeks enabling me to gain an extensive level of breadth throughout the scheme whilst also enabling sufficient depth I work on a varied range of t
Best Student Employer

Summer Intern
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
During the internship we had the opportunity to work within our chosen departments taking on real work to help out the team There were a wide number of departments we could choose from and we ranked our preferences The work completed varied depending
Best Student Employer

Summer Internship
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The cohort was allocated two seats in order of preference We were very much involved in client work and able to complete drafting duediligence notetaking and reviewing tasks as well as attending internal meetings as well as clientmeetings The first
Best Student Employer

Vacation Scheme Participant
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The intorductory week mostly involved listening to various speakers The two weeks interning invovled doing low level tasks associated with the seat ie deed scheduling and speaking with people in the department to gain an insight into the work they us
Best Student Employer

Summer Intern
- DLA Piper
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
A typical day would involve completing a variety of tasks for our Line Manager and other team members too for example research tasks due dilligence drafting and client calls We were able to arrange coffees with different people at the firm to further g
Best Student Employer