Rating
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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 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 Barclays
- 7. Would you recommend Barclays to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays
Overview
I worked in the Business Oversight Compliance team and I mainly dealt with anti-money launderign. My team and I analyzed issues that arised internally with the aim to define whether they were to be considered as policy breaches and to take all of the necessary steps to solve them. This involves writing reports and constantly update all of the people involved by the issue.
Skills
In terms of soft skills, I got more and more comfortable in actively participating in meetings and I surely honed my teamworking. Moreover, I significantly improved my PowerPoint and Outlook skills. As regards hard skills, I had the chance to learn in an unbelievably quick and effective way all of the information necessary to work in an Anti-Money Laundering.
Responsibilities
Barclays counts more than 80,000 employees, so I think it is necessary to put things into perspective. Differently from a small company or a startup, where the output of your work might be key to important decision-making since from day 1, at Barclays they ease you into it. I was given responsibilities regarding the internal functioning of the team operations, i.e., arrange meetings or give small update presentations.
Support & Guidance
Barclays provides its employees and, especially, interns with endless support. For any single thing that was not clear to me, I could contact a team or a person that would help me through it. There are always people available to give you useful advice and they generally encourage you to ask for it.
Culture
The general atmosphere was more easygoing than one would expect from an international bank. The company culture is incredibly inclusive for anybody.
Your Impressions
I truly enjoyed working at Barclays. It was nice to wake up in the morning knowing that I was going to spend another day with my team and my line manager because I got along very well with all of them. Moreover, I experienced how exciting it is to feel to be learning something new every single day.
Yes
I would recommend that they make sure they are applying for a position they are truly interested in and at least minimally knowledgeable about. I reckon that the business-specific part of the final interview might turn out to be quite tough if you have little to no idea about what the position you applied for actually is.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Retail Banking
Scotland
October 2021