Spring Analyst Review

I thoroughly enjoyed the spring week and mainly because it was interactive and mental stimulating. We had spotlight sessions from many graduates and that too, made it very appealing to learn much more about some of the functions. So personally on a scale from (1-5), with 5 being the highest it would probably be 5!!

I believe making it onto the program itself made me feel valued and having the opportunity to share my opinions on things and for Barclays to further develop my understanding of the different function areas also made me feel valued. They also provide a great and open opportunity for us interns to learn from each other.

I received a great amount of support from the Barclays graduates from the areas I was interested in and also our recruiters of the program were very much open to all questions and very helpful! Furthermore, graduates are very keen on getting Spring interns who have a passion in what they're interested in and inviting them for coffee.

I was given a very practical perspective of things and I believe I developed various skills throughout the programme. However, the one skill I think I utilised during the Spring program and enhanced the most was my ability to build good relationships with people. The spring program really throws you into the deep end and I think through the use of constant networking events/opportunities it allows you to fully take advantage of this skill.

I think the insight was very well designed and structured! I would actually applaud the resourcing team and the recruiters from my specific program!

The general atmosphere in one nutshell I would say was 'warm'. People really made the environment as comfortable as possible and this was reflected across the entire company.

Other than having function spotlight sessions and opportunities to hear from professionals in each field, us as interns were all given the chance to shadow a expert in their field. Therefore, in response to what extent well largely!

To a large extent, from the recruiters to graduates and more so managing directors they all made it clear and precise of how on a day to day basis work would look like for us on a full time role or either a graduate position. This was highlighted throughout the entire week of the group functions Spring week.

The insight did this in the fullest literally the values were shown everywhere you could possible turn to and I found this very exciting because it shows Barclays truly cared about them and that they were embedded into the way it did business. In addition.to various talk we also got to see how the values linked into each area and more importantly at the beginning of the week we had a session focusing on specifically the company's values!

The content was very valuable!!! I really cannot express this in words but I think it really does show you how the different areas of the business operate and how you could most fit in. Also I say it was very valuable because we had live graduates expressing this to us each day.

Yes there were many networking opportunities!!!

In one word FANTASTIC!

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