Wealth and Personal Banking Summer Intern Review
by HSBC
Rating
-
Skills
3.0
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Responsibilities
1.0
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Support & Guidance
3.0
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Culture
3.8
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Your Impressions
2.7
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at HSBC
- 7. Would you recommend HSBC to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to HSBC
Overview
I am placed within the FST team which sits within COO. I am required to complete projects set by my line manager and present recommendations. I also have various intern projects to get involved in. There is also opportunity to complete learning to develop.
Skills
I have got a bit more comfortable with excel and developed more personal skills, however I have not developed any additional banking knowledge as a whole other than terminology used within FST.
Responsibilities
I had responsibility in the sense that I was able to present proposals and a few were acted upon during my time.
Support & Guidance
There was plenty of contact available from my line manager, GradCoach, team members. There was always someone to reach out for a specific issue.
Culture
The culture and atmosphere was positive but I feel workload used to increase all of a sudden in periods rather than be staggered. The last 2 weeks of the internship seem busy due to extra projects being assigned and some presentations that clashed.
Your Impressions
I relatively enjoyed my internship but expected it to be more wealth related rather than what I was placed in- it seems to be more retail banking based and not wealth which should have been made clearer. Also, there are 0 in person events organised directly by the intern team which is disappointing considering that restrictions were eased approximately 4 weeks prior to our internship ending. Also I was unable to go into the office.
Yes
Make sure to get a deeper understanding of the role at hand, as the job descriptions are often vague and the assessment centres are not overly technical/banking related.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Banking
West Midlands
August 2021
