GBM Spring Week Review

by HSBC

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Business Insight
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.7
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of the insight and what was involved on a day-to-day basis.
  • We explorer what a life in global banking was like looking into CIB and IB specifically. Then in global market we looked into Sales and Trading where we got to see the trading floors.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • Communication Commercial awareness Networking Analysing data Answering more technical questions


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the knowledge learned around industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the knowledge learned around personal or professional skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how the knowledge learned has helped you with regards to your career development
  • 5/5

    Business Insight

  • 3. What was it like understanding all about the business and potential roles available?
  • It was very transparent, they spoke about the good things but also mentioned down sides to things when asked and emphasised HSBC's working environment was very accepting of mistakes and is supportive and helps individuals


  • Please rate how insightful you found the insight
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the structure of the insight
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate business leader involvement during the insight
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 4. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • The company culture was actually very nice and open however on the trading floor it was very stressful as expected though! The workers there were less approachable. But the atmosphere was otherwise very accepting


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the networking opportunities?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how valued you felt during your insight?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 5. To what extent did you enjoy the insight?
  • I enjoyed it alot as it gave me insights into industries I was really not aware of and I feel like in these 4 days I've greatly improved my knowledge of thr industry


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on the insight
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at HSBC
  • 3/5

  • 7. Would you recommend HSBC to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to HSBC
  • Focus a lot on their values and try link all ur examples to their values


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Details

Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)

Banking

London

April 2024


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