Rating

10/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • My role changed on a daily basis some days I was checking accounts and other days I was carrying out testing on invoices some of which were in German.

    10/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • My proficiency in excel has excelled everyone does it at school however my speed has increased dramatically over the 2 weeks. Even discovering how to do stuff I didn't know

    10/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • I enjoyed every minute of it. The work was engaging and even when I ran out of work as I did towards the end of the week and the time shadowing the assistant manager he always found me some work to do within a few minutes.

    10/10

  • 4. How valued do you feel by BDO?
  • I felt very valued the manager I was shadowing always stopped his work to clear up any questions or find me some more work to do even when he himself was very busy.

    10/10

  • 5. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • The first day was a very slick program, as was the initial few hours at the office and then I was working with the staff members straight away by 12 o'clock.

    10/10

  • 6a. How much support do you receive from your training provider?
  • The support from my training provider was impressive at the end of every email there was always "any questions come don't hesitate to come and ask me".

    10/10

  • 6b. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • The employer was always there to help me the members of staff even when they were busy stopped their work in order to answer any question I had no matter how trivial.

    10/10

  • 7. How well does your salary/package meet your costs?
  • Yes it did and any costs that weren't to my main office were paid for my train tickets to London arrived 2 weeks before I even went on the train.

    10/10

  • 8. Are there many opportunities outside of work?
  • There was we had a charity ping pong event, a work party and many lunches all in the 2 weeks that I was working there for. Plenty there you just need to get involved

    10/10

  • 9. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 9b. Why?
  • It gives you an edge, it is the first real selection as to whether or not you are wanted by employees and even if you don't want to go into the job afterwards it is certainly a good experience.


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to BDO?
  • Research it and put the work in the saying that hard work pays off it always does. I spent 6 hours preparing my presentation and 2 hours typing my application.


Details

Work Experience

Accounting, Finance

South East

August 2016


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