Wealth and Personal Banking Intern Review
by HSBC
Rating
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Skills
4.3
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 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
This really depends on the division you are put in. I was in the customer experience team and worked on providing suggestions on how we could make the overdraft public website more user friendly. The placement work is not suppose to take up all your time and there are other projects you get involved in as an intern.
Skills
I have learnt so many new skills like presentation, communication, teamwork, leadership etc. You will learn so much throughout the internship but like most things it depends on how much effort you actually put in.
Responsibilities
I was given so much responsibility. For my placement I was in charge of the entire public overdraft website and it was up to me to find ways to improve the customer experience and present it to senior managers. Also you have other intern projects like the GROW challenge where you have £10 to make as much money as possible which I chose to be project manager for we have made more than £1500.
Support & Guidance
There is so much support and guidance throughout the internship. You are given a GradCoach who is someone on the Grad scheme who is your mate and you can have an informal chat with. You have an OPM who is essentially a more formal version of your GradCoach and then you have your placement manager who you can reach out to. There is so much support and guidance in this internship.
Culture
Amazing, very relaxed everyone is so friendly and approachable. The culture in this bank is by far the best out of any of the big banks, it feels like a bunch of mates working together. 10/10
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed my internship, I did such meaningful and interesting work, I made so many good friends with other interns it is such an amazing experience. I cannot recommend it enough 10/10
Yes
Everything revolves around the four core values so have them in the back of your mind when answering the online test/assessment centres. Have an example for how you have demonstrated each one.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Retail Banking
West Midlands
August 2022
