Public sector assurance intern Review

Item: Public sector assurance intern at BDO
Rating: 4.5
Author: Anonymous

at BDO

Internship (1 Month+)

Accounting

Ipswich

Review Submitted: August 2022

Overall Rating

4.5 /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!

3/5 - Overview of Role

4.5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - Company Culture

3.5/5 - 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.

Engaged in client work on a variety of public sector clients. These are predominantly NHS trusts and Local government councils. Assited with testing procedures as part of the audit process.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

For the first two weeks a project was assigned to myself and the other intern within my team. This was completed soley by ourselves and therefore represented a large responsibility. Apart from this the nature of the work required constant checking by more experiened staff and therefore involved less responsibilty, however we were given the chance to complete tasks on our own.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

3/5

Skills Development

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

Learnt alot of new skills on excel, lookup forumlae, nested formulae etc. Worked in a variety of teams of varying size, so improved my communication and teamwork skills.

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?

Intial training was conducted at an external venue, this was very helpful. Beyond this more senior staff members were always on hand to answer questions.