Property Management / Valuation Review

Item: Property Management / Valuation at Savills
Rating: 4
Author: Anonymous

at Savills

Placement (10 Months+)

Property Management

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Review Submitted: June 2021

Overall Rating

4 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

5/5 - Overview of Role

4.3/5 - Skills Development

3.5/5 - Support and Guidance

3.8/5 - Company Culture

4/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Property Management- Managing the day to day running of 3 sites, along with being in contact with residents.
Valuation- Doing Due Diligence, writing reports, going on inspections.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Property Management- I was given a lot of responsibility, my own blocks to manage along with setting up a tennis club booking system and ownership of my work.
Valuation- I am in direct contact with clients, writing reports.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

I have learnt lots, time management, people management, managing work loads etc. I have also learnt a lot that is relevant to my university course.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

4/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

5/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

At the start it was very hard as I started working from home which makes it very hard to learn and run through things. Now I come into the office most days this dramatically improves my experience.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

3/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

I like the company culture, everyone is very friendly.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

4/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

3/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

4/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I have had a great time and feel it will have massively helped with future career prospects. The one negative is that Covid meant I could not fully experience the social side and it was hard to learn when working from home.