Having been at Logica for 4 months now I can safely say it has been a good and worth while experience so far. When I joined the company I didn’t have any idea on what the job would be like. As Logica is project based I did not have a set role and was under a very general role. I found that being under a general role helped me do what I wanted to do and shape my own experience at Logica rather than Logica shaping my experience for me.

In the first week of my placement I was asked to help our marketing department with various tasks. I found myself doing various administration tasks as well as design. This was a nice experience to bring me into the company. I then went onto working for the resourcing department and did IT related tasks for our internal system as well as the client (Shell). This project was a springboard for my next project that I pro-actively found.

Currently I am working on a technical project on a financial transaction system. When I was accepted for the role it seemed like a daunting task, however getting exposure to ‘industry standard’ work has helped me in understanding the core components within my degree and modules at university finally seem to make sense! So to summarise I wasn’t originally being challenged as much as I wanted to but I am currently on a Java based project that is helping me learn lots of new skills that I can take back to university with me.