360 apprentice Review

The 360 apprenticeship at KPMG involves real work at the firms London office at canary wharf (in my location) and working at client sites, also with the unique oppportunity to move around the business and experience other work, while studying for a professional qualification and undertaking some lengthy and hard exams!

YES - The main skills I learnt including problem solving, communication, time keeping, team work and also presentation skills. It was great working with new people both in the firm and also getting to know some of my other 360 starters. We all learnt so much from Day one in the firm

I have absolutely enjoyed my 360 programme. I have given lots of help and support and the people were really nice. I have enjoyed rotating in different business areas and this is a unique selling point and has helped identify where I want to proceed my career in the long term

It's a really well structured programme and I have been given the chance to see and do a great amount of work. I have met lots of clients and was given very early responsibility, which I wasnt expecting and I had to step up quickly to perform my work successfully

I had great support from the form in the early days before the programme which was important, being young and not experienced at all in this line of work. The comms given by the team were really helpful and gave me confidence to do my job when I did start

I get good support although I find the study harder than I expected, and the exams are more intense than I had thought possible! I am working hard to gain my qualification and this takes longer than graduate starters but this is perhaps good in allowing me time to pass

I dont know anything about the main work areas before I started and the exams help build technical knowledge, and you work through lots of numerical tasks too so it is important to pay attention as you need good maths skills too in order to pass - it is not simply theory

Yes there are clubs but i have not yet been involved in any of these as I have been busy working and maintaining friends with the group I started with, but yes I think there are clubs and networks I can join and think I might do this when time allows

Yes

The 360 programme is unique as far as I am aware, I did not know which work area interested me the most but now I am more clear which area interests me the most. I would not have known this without the 360 experience and learning whilst I was studying

I would say go for it and to look early as places seem to fill quickly and lots of people knew about kpmg and this 360 programme well ahead of applying. so it is popular. but yes do apply and give it your best shot as it is worth it