Nicole Hayley Bilder

I really enjoyed my experience at PwC! I will be returning in September to work in the same group, which has now joined with a data analytics group. I am really excited to get more experience in the field and work with a great team.

One of the most important lessons I learned during my internship was the importance of tailoring communication. It is hard to know how to deal with different types of people, whether it be different personalities or different levels of authority, and I never learned any of this during school. I realized that different verbiage must be used for…[Read more]

I feel like I have been able to apply more material from Temple than a lot of my peers in MIS programs at other schools. During training, I was familiar with many of the topics covered. As training went on, many of the topics expanded on things I grazed in school, which made comprehending the expansions easier. I used a lot of process diagramming…[Read more]

Completing work tasks is fairly easy to stay on top of,as, for me, they do not typically veer outside of my working hours. Sometimes, schoolwork can fall through the cracks, though. To stay on top of things, I use a no-frills to-do list. I use the sticky notes app on my laptop, and list out my courses. For the current week, the previous week (if…[Read more]

The office where I interned had a system called “hoteling” for desk seating. Every week, employees picked an open desk to reserve. Since my group was fairly small, we did not have a designated area in which we all sat together. One of the most important things I had to figure out on my own was the “politics” and culture involved in this…[Read more]

Hi everyone,
I worked at PwC as an Enterprise Systems Solutions Intern in their Risk Assurance practice. During my internship, I worked a lot with SAP to test controls set up at clients to optimize their audit processes. I also used SAP to test clients’ competencies in various rule set functions. In addition, I spent some time working with…[Read more]

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