Barclays – Company Profile

Barclays is best known as one of the world’s leading banks; a far-reaching global financial services organisation, with 147,000 colleagues in over 50 countries serving more than 48 million customers. Barclays Retail and Business Banking provides banking and credit card solutions and services to personal and small business customers.

About our Internship Programme

Eight weeks with Barclays is much more than a great way to spend your summer. It could also be the start of a journey that takes you all the way to the top of a global financial services powerhouse.

In the first instance, this is an opportunity to immerse yourself in our business and see whether what we do is what you want to do in the long term. But looking a little further ahead, if we decide we’re right for each other and you return to Barclays for our leadership programme, you’ll find yourself on the career equivalent of an express elevator to the top floor.

The Programme

This year you can choose from our Retail and Business Banking Internship Programme or Functional Internship Programmes in Human Resources, Marketing & Products, Marketing Analytics, Credit Risk Analytics, Finance or Technology – Product and Process Development.

Whichever part of the business you join, and wherever in the country, you’ll spend your eight weeks gaining invaluable commercial knowledge as you start to piece together the skills and capabilities you need to make it big in business. For our part, we want to see what exactly you’re capable of, so expect to be tested, stretched and making a real contribution from day one.

You’ll be well-supported throughout your time with us. Not only do we run regular events to show you precisely how a global organisation like ours works, but you’ll also be assigned a buddy (a recent graduate recruit who’ll show you the ropes). So by the end of the summer, you’ll have a clear idea of what we do and, hopefully, where you’d like to work when you graduate.

Who we look for

We don’t just hire interns. We hire leaders-in-waiting. So whether you’re in your penultimate year at university or a finalist planning a gap year or further study before starting a permanent role, you must be someone who’s looking to join a graduate scheme (preferably ours) the year following the internship. Academic qualifications aside (you’ll need to be on track for a 2:1 minimum), we’re after the same things we look for in all our people – heaps of energy, plenty of initiative, a commercial mindset, a healthy suspicion of the status quo and real leadership potential.

Our Retail and Business Banking Leadership Programme will give you a broad overview of the business, or you could opt for one of our Functional Leadership Programmes that will prepare you for a high-flying future in Human Resources, Marketing & Products, Marketing Analytics, Credit Risk Analytics, Credit Risk Delivery & Information Management, Technology – Product and Process Development, Finance and Tax.

To apply and find out more, visit our website via the button below:

www.seemore-bemore.com