360 Apprentice Review

My programme is rotational, I am currently in my Audit rotation. On a day to day basis, I carry out, audit testing, contacting clients, contacting third parties such as banks, reviewing financial statements and annual reports. I would also email our teams from around the world to share information or to instruct them on tasks to carry out.

I have learnt many skills since joining. I have developed my people skills and I am not confident with communicating and presenting data with not just clients, but my team and peers as well. I have developed my email skills, and I believe I am now able to write emails well depending on who I am communicating with. I have learnt brand new excel skills that I did not know before.

I enjoy my programme and I am grateful for having this opportunity. things I enjoy in my programme are training, this allows for me to develop my skills further. I also enjoy social events as it allows me to network and to meet other people from different departments. in addition, I enjoy that we are given volunteering days to use, this can be helping out for our old schools/colleges or for a charity.

My programme is well structed and organised. We have a breakdown of our programme by years, so in each year we work towards a specific qualification. in relation to organisation, my programme is organised, we are informed of any changes quickly and clearly. in addition, I know who to contact and where to go if I have any issues.

I receive a lot of support from my employer. if I have any issues, I go to my performance manager who will help me resolve the issues. if I have problems, in my work, I go to my manager or my in charge and we work together to overcome the issues. the employer has many support lines for different situations and fields that you need support in.

My training provider are very supportive. I have the emails of the tutors. so if I have any questions I go to the tutors and ask them for help. in addition, if I have any issues with accessing the materials, the training provider will quickly get back to me and assist me with my queries.

I would find many of my roles with data difficult without my training provider. My qualification heavily plays a role in my job, as the content overlaps with the client work that I carry out. therefore the qualification significantly helps me to perform my role much better due to this.

There are many extra curricular activities to participate in. In each department we have many social events e.g. Christmas party, leaving parties, team parties, departmental meetings. as an apprentice I have had opportunities to be part of a panel to answer questions for schools, to participate with careers events, and to be apart of mentoring schemes.

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Since working for KPMG, my personality has completely changed, I am now more confident when talking to people and I easily am able to make friends. in addition I have learnt so many transferable skills e.g. communication, emails, presentation skills. KPMG have many opportunities and really value their employees

The application process you need to think outside of the box for the questions, think of something that you know will wow the assessor. in addition, if you cannot, try a mainstream topic but put your own twist to it. Don't stress for the assessment centre, the interviewers are lovely and it feels more like a conversation. They will do everything they can to make you feel comfortable.