Christian Wims

I had a great experience interning at PwC. I got to really experience what it will be like to work as a full time associate. Also, I made a lot of connections which will be good for me in my career. I did receive a full time offer to work in Process Assurance. I accepted the offer and will be starting in August 2018.

A lesson I learned during my internship that I just couldn’t learn in the classroom or from a textbook is that you need to always be prepared for your schedule to change. In the classroom, you usually will have a strict schedule that won’t really change much, but when working in this internship, I quickly learned that my schedule will be c…[Read more]

A class that really helped me in my internship was my Business Communications class at Temple. In that class, I learned how to write professional emails and communicate in a professional manner so I was able to leverage this in my internship. This was a very important skill for me to have because in my internship, communicating with my team,…[Read more]

It can be challenging to manage your school work with your internship, but there are ways to make it easier to manage. The things that I do and the tips I would have for managing the both together would be to buy a planner. The planner makes it easier to organize the work that needs to be done and when it needs to be done. It helps with choosing…[Read more]

The most important skills that I have discovered in my internship are communication and excel skills. When I first came into my internship, I did not realize that excel was so important, but excel was needed for a lot of the everyday tasks at the company. Also, the most important people that I have discovered during my internship were my career…[Read more]

In my internship, the company had a system set up for how to reserve desks. On my first day with the company, I did not know how to use the system. When I finally did learn how to reserve a desk, I ended up reserving a desk that was meant for people of a different department in the company. So coming in, I not only had to learn how to reserve a…[Read more]

Hello everyone,
I worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers over the summer. PwC has professional services which include audit and assurance, tax and consulting. During my internship, I worked in Process Assurance which is a part of the Risk Assurance practice. The main responsibility that I had in my role was to identify if there were any risks…[Read more]

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