Work Experience Intern Review

Working at Heathrow T5, helping with signage and hosting for a celebrity charity event. Working with the Ranger to check on livestock and conditions in the park surrounding the buildings. Putting work experience packs together for other students. Attending crew briefings to experience different types of working envvironments. Data entry.

I learnt to work others as part of a team. I learnt to communicate well with other team members and others within the organisation. I learnt what it takes to put together a charity event. I learnt to be flexible when plans don't always go as expected, which might be difficult.

I really loved my work experience. I would go back in a heartbeat! I worked with really interesting and friendly people who taught me a lot. What I learned about using systems has really helped me with getting further internships. The training in presentations continues to help me with my work.

This was really well organised! Everyone expected me when I was due to change the person I was with. I understood what was happening and when, it could not have been better. It was really amazing given that it was the first time that that department had had a work experience student there.

I learnt a lot about the company culture, what it was like to work within that business and sector, and in particular what it was like to work in their head office building. It gave me a great impression of how helpful other departments like the IT department were as well.

It has really helped me to understand how much I enjoyed helping other people. Although I might not end up working for an airline, I really loved the community involvement aspects of what I did, and hope to use these within my future career, perhaps in an SEN or education setting.

No, I was not paid for this experience. It gave me a great insight into the business - this was reward enough!

Yes! Lots of opportunities for networking and meeting other employees. I still have connections to people that I met during this time, and was really happy to be able to talk to people in many different professions / departments during my work experience. I was encouraged to talk to lots of different people. I still have connections on LinkedIn from this time.

Yes

I would recommend BA to my friends as it was a great experience, with amazing people, that gave me excellent opportunities. It also gave me the confidence to work with them again as a Student Ambassador, telling many other people about the training and programmes that they offer, especially to young people.

My tips would be to make a professional CV, make yourself stand out by including things that will help you to be different to other candidates - try to be an interesting person, if you get asked for an interview, be neat and tidy and on time. In group activities join in, but don't overwhelm other people.