Published: 07/04/2024 By Jack Edwards
From Work Experience to Partner; Our career spotlight this month shines on Jack Edwards, Partner in our Salisbury Office, whose first taste of the firm was during a summer’s work experience while studying at the Royal Agricultural College.In 2009, when I had just completed the 2nd year of my Rural Land Management degree at the Royal Agricultural College (as it was back then), Symonds & Sampson offered me a summer’s work experience in the Salisbury Office. The opportunity to put what I had learned during lectures into practice was immensely beneficial to me, and I realised that I wanted to work for a firm where the work was as varied as the client base. After graduation, I was offered a full-time position initially assisting 2 surveyors, however, I was quickly given responsibility for carrying out my own work and was set a modest fee target. Peers of mine in other firms felt they were being pigeonholed in their work and began to lose interest, but I had no problem whatsoever in gaining the necessary experience to enable me to pass my APC on my first attempt in Autumn 2012.
The firm has a very supportive approach to nurturing the younger professionals’ careers, encouraging and allowing you as a professional adviser to identify your strengths and ensuring that you are doing the type of work that you do best. As a firm, we are now very lucky to have so many talented young professionals actively developing their careers with us and this is something which has noticeably developed since I first joined.
I became a Partner in April 2018, based in Salisbury and expanding the Rural and Professional Department covering East Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
Jack can be contacted on 01722 334323, and please click here for details of the extensive Rural and Professional services we can offer.
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