Summer Scheme Review

Item: Summer Scheme at Savills
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at Savills

Internship (1 Month+)

Property Development

Birmingham

Review Submitted: August 2023

Overall Rating

4.9 /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

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.5/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

Help prepare planning appraisals, undertake research and analysis, help prepare planning applications, contribute to the preparation/editing of Design and Access Statements, Sustainability Statements and other planning documents. Monitor local council planning application process, look at planning history for various sites. Take minutes for various meetings, conference. Learn how the planning application in real life works through the use of planning portal.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was given responsibilities through out the internship but just enough not to fill up all my capacity.

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 to access the public data base for planning applications in different councils, how to write some parts of the appraisal, had a deeper look through planning policies, deeper understanding on development plans, local plans. Had s deeper understanding on the new things that are happening in the industry.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

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

5/5

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 whole team was supportive and answer my confusions whenever I need it so people are generally helpful, from all levels of staff.

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

5/5

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

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

The company seems to be working as a team, but interactions between people from different department is not as usual. But everyone is helpful when it comes to anything people ask. For example, when there is staff from another office, people in the office are very welcoming. And as an intern, I felt very welcomed the whole month.