Junior Asian Equity Sales Review

I thought it was the best thought strategy, although tedious because we rotated on over 25 desks, it gave everybody the chance to learn about everything the bank does. I started with an open mind which made it much easier than people who were not able to work where they wanted to.

I felt like the work I did was used by my team on a regular basis, although not commended on it all the time I could see that they appreciated the various spreadsheets I created to simplify processes for them.

My supervisor refused to micromanage which left me to be independant and decide what I wanted to do and how I would go about doing it, every few days we would catch up about work and how I was getting along which was good. Having lunch with my manager proved instrumental as we got to know each other informally too.

I think I was kept very busy but I did have the time to take a few breaks and get some fresh air. It was amazing that I would look at my watch and half the day had passed without me realizing because I would be engrossed in researching a company to present or working on a trader's spreadsheet. On some rotations though it was quite boring and there was no way of adding value but towards the end I was adding some value to my desk.

To start with I had no responsibility but as the weeks went by I was given full responsibility of organizing the material for the morning meeting and going to roadshows to make sure everything was set up correctly for clients/analysts. At times I was running the show too which made me feel like I was being useful, not an experience I can say is true for other work experiences I have had in events managment, brokerage and retail bank.

I graduated before doing my internship but the skills I learnt here are not skills I could have learnt from a textbook.

Being on the trading floor is the ultimate experiences, you feel like you are part of something larger and theres always something to keep you interested.

Spectacularly, the intern events we had were frequent but started to get tedious towards the end of the internship but the actual rotation/internship programme had an excellent structure that exposed me to all areas that put the bank's businesses into perspective.

In the induction week we learnt about presenting and communication as well as other team-building tasks. After this we had various seminars to teach us about other areas of the bank as well as graduate panel lunches where we spoke to recent graduates.