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I can’t believe that I’ve finished my internship already. Six weeks has gone so quickly – I must be getting old!

This last week has been a strange one… even though I was only here for a few weeks I found the idea of leaving all of the new people I’d met (staff and interns) pretty sad. However there was plenty to keep us busy as we tried to get things finished off – I managed to get my last tax return in the post at 4.30 on Friday afternoon!

This was also the week of our final round interviews – one with a manager and one with a partner. Although we were able to apply to any department, I decided to go for a role in Private Client Tax where I had been working – challenging work and a great team. The manager interview was essentially competency based again, whereas the partner interview felt more like a chat where I was asked more general questions about the firm such as why I wanted to apply there specifically and what had been the main challenges during my internship.

We’ll find out soon if we’ve been lucky enough to secure a place at GT but even without that added bonus I have had a fantastic 6 weeks full of new experiences, met some great people, earned some money and learnt skills that will benefit me wherever life takes me.

So, my one piece of advice to those of you in your penultimate year at uni would be to do an internship.

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope it’s been useful

Lucy