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Savills

Summer Scheme Student Review

at Savills

Internship (1 Month+)

Surveying

City of Westminster

Review Submitted: July 2025

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 - Overview of Role
5/5 - Skills Development
5/5 - Support and Guidance
4/5 - 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.
My role mostly deals with service charges, ensuring buildings (specifically the external areas) are well maintain and all tenants enquiries is resolve promptly. Daily, I was involved with managing leases, handling tenant relations, ensuring property maintenance, and dealing with financial matters. I had to create budget reports, variance reports, Savills workflows, business plan, research and data analysis.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Yes, in the beginning (first week) I was not really doing anything that difficult, but after that, i went straight into the big works - e.g.. creating quarterly budget and variance reports to visit sites and speaking with tenants to understand their needs even more. The work and experience was really eye-opening and amazing.
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 enhance my excel skills as it is a key technological skills all the other teams uses.
I have improved my confident to network and build relationships from multiple people from different background.
My understand of the real estate market and different departments has really widen as I got to speak to multiple members from various different teams to understand their roles and daily works.
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?
I received a lot support during my internship. I was specifically assigned to 4 members of the property management team, who always ensured to provide me with work, explain everything thoroughly and answers all questions I had for them. They guided me whenever i needed it and were always open to assist me.
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?
People were very positive and easily approachable.
Everyone was nice to me and made me feel very welcome and appreciated.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
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 really enjoyed my time at Savills, especially my Property Management team due how they warmly welcomed me into the team, accepted me, appreciated all the work/efforts I put into everything I did, provided me all the knowledge and guidance i need.
I gain a good understanding of the all the other team, which helped provided me with a confident idea of the department I will love to pursue during my graduate programme.
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 Savills
5/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Savills to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Savills
To be open to learn
Be passionate about whatever your doing
Be enthusiastic and work hard
They will provide welcome you, provide you with all the support and guidance you will need and the rest will be up to you to make the most out of the experience.
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