Summer Scheme Student Review

Role
-As summer scheme student of the team
-Worked under supervision
- Mentor as a superior (Graduate), team associate director as line supervisor
Overview of duties
- Site assessments and review (study on its planning history, the relevant planning policies)
- Thematic study (allotment matters under supplementary planning document and S106 agreement)
- Documents processing and filing
- Development feasibility study (previous application cases, appeal case law)
- Drafting the planning statement for a major residential development (involves context understanding, division of work between teams)

Yes, the team head was very clear about the expectation of not wanting me to sit there and do nothing.
Delegated task ownership (partial) has been given
Well established mechanism:
Weekly (Start)-> Team Meeting: to report the task to be cleared for the week and the expected duration
Daily-> Morning quite update to superior about the tasks to be accomplished and also the tasks completed the day before
Weekly (End) -> Week tasks overview with mentor and discussion on next week's goals

Existing Skills Enhancement
- Task Processing (Systematic recording of task instructions, task info)
- Week Task Planning (Weekly reporting on tasks to be processes and expected task clearance time)
- Task Execution (Break down the task into mini-task for execution, diagnosis of the 'critical path' ->key challenge to be tackled )
- Work accuracy and error prevention (Checklist generation)
- Technical knowledge (Planning system operations)
- Information processing (finding and shortlisting the relevant information, with importance rated)
- Team Communications (active updating and reporting to superior and supervisor)

Excellent support and guidance.
Same as previous question:
Weekly (Start)-> Team Meeting: to report the task to be cleared for the week and the expected duration
Daily-> Morning quite update to superior about the tasks to be accomplished and also the tasks completed the day before
Weekly (End) -> Week tasks overview with mentor and discussion on next week's goals
Task instructions usually delegated from supervisor, or from superior with permission from line supervisor
Both line supervisor and superior are very clear about the task clearance process

-Open office layout, easy to communicate with superior and supervisor
- Very communicative team, we are informed and updated about the tasks of other team members
- High standards in work
- Well established HR and work procedures and mechanisms
- Good online training platform, provides training on diversity, health and safety matters, ESG
- Induction events (online) provided to improve the understanding to company
- Serious in work delivery and client commitment
- Mindful of potential risk and execution of risk mitigation measures

To a large extent, I enjoyed the internship. There are a number of contributing factors:
1. Office Layout
- Open office is much easier to communicate than traditional office of which supervisors and superiors are difficult to approach
2. Team culture
- Communication is at high standard, the monday morning meeting of tasks reporting by team members is the key
3. Clear delegation and communication
- My Line supervisor [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the Higherin Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] and mentor (superior) [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the Higherin Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] took charge seriously in managing me, which enhances my learning experience significantly
- Daily reporting and weekly overview with mentor is also crucial to this internship
Overall, I feel being valued and respected at Savills Birmingham Planning Team

Yes