Work Experience Review

The work experience involved a range of workshops to improve our professionalism and business manner as well as giving us experience in a company. For the last week I was placed with a partnering company: the big lottery fund, where I learnt about the law behind putting business into practice.

A lot of the workshops focused on our business skills including networking , public speaking and business manners. This helped me to develop as an individual as I improved my professionalism and overall sense of how I carry myself when speaking to professionals. I also earned a Level two Team Leading qualification.

The experience I had meant that I enjoyed it very much. The people I worked with, staff and students, were lovely. I also learned loads from the workshops which I found to be very useful and fun because of their interactive nature. I also enjoyed travelling to Birmingham as part of my experience with the big lottery fund.

It was organised in terms of the programmes however we always ran over time and this seemed to be a reoccurring theme. At lunch time it was hard to also know who was staying and who was going as everyone left due to the lack of option that they had offered in the first couple of days.

They were very keen to inform us about the friendly, personal atmosphere the company had and how supportive everyone was however it did not always feel like that . The workshops focused a lot on what the company does and what it was like to work there, as well as it’s professional nature in the financial world.

If I’m honest, not much I’m still going to go on to study law. I began the experience with an open mind of maybe pursuing a career in financial law however the experience strengthened my decision to go on to study law and become a criminal barrister eventually.

I was paid for my time on this experience. We received over £600 for the entire experience. Even though I was not reimbursed for my travel or lunch at my time with EY, at the big lottery fund I was, which helped as it was more costly to go to Chancery Lane.

There was always an opportunity to network with other employees as they were to improve our skills. A key networking opportunity was meeting our mentors for the first time and getting to know them as it allowed us to branch out and Learn from them and get a better perspective into the inside world.

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EY work experience was really enjoyable and I learned so much from it that I can now use in everyday life. You also get paid which was a big push factor however you do benefit form the workshops educationally and you gain many key connections from the networking sessions and so on.

I would say to other people applying to Make sure that business or accounting is what you want to peruse in your career as it is heavily focused on that area and to have an interest in this particular field would help you learn a lot from the programme itself.