Overall Rating
4.7 /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
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Overview of Role
4.5/5
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Skills Development
4/5
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Support and Guidance
5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Can be working from home or in the office, either way different teams connect virtually using portals to conduct audits, team managers will assign you work and someone to ask questions about, once a week work on a CSR project leading to a presentation in the final week.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
A lot of this internship works on the learn-on-the-job method, and with this lots of responsibility is given after the first week of training, as everyone is inserted into a team and assigned bits of work as part of auditing a real company, obviously assistance is given, but you are still given access to the live auditing document.
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?
Developed my skills in communications, working with other people all over the world is a big part of this job. In addition, skills in regard to the audit have built upon business finance and just a greater understanding of the corporate systems these firms work on.
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?
5/5
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?
The initial week of training could have been more in depth but did give a basic understanding of the process, the real training is received when working on the audits, it can get tiring having the ask questions all the time, but the support is given
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
4/5
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?
BDO has a great company culture, from what I've heard of the other firms in the same industry, BDO appears to be the exception - with understanding managers, good community schemes to give back to society, I would say the general atmosphere is positive.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
5/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
This placement is perfect to get an insight into what working in the audit industry will be like, although I would have like a little more in-depth training, the internship achieves what it should, embedding you within real-life teams to get a real experience of what it's like to work for BDO.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at BDO
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to BDO
If you want to experience what it's like to work in the audit industry, this is by far the best place to go, be honest about yourself and go into the internship with a willingness to learn, but most important you should want to connect with and meet new people.
