Spring Intern Functions Review

Enjoyed the week greatly. Great opportunity to get a good general overview of how the functions part of the bank operates

Everyone was very friendly and helpful and answered any questions we had. We were encouraged to ask questions even if we thought they were silly and people were very interested in me, what I did and why I was there and endeavored to give me everything I was looking for during my time there

We were given contact info for various people should we have an issue throughout the week and everyone was very helpful with anything we needed or wanted to know

Personally it will not help me so much with my degree as my degree is completely unrelated to the placement. However many of the skills I learnt and the confidence I gained will be very useful looking for a job after my studies

Very well structures. We were given an itinerary for the week at the beginning that was nicely divided up with two days spent shadowing 4 different areas

Really friendly, everyone wanted to help and talk to us and were really interested in why we were there. The atmosphere in all the RBS buildings was really friendly and calm

We were given a few seminars on things such as presentation skills and basic economics. Although I would say that once you've seen one presentation on presentation skills, you've seen them all and it wasn't anything special

To a great extent, all the staff told us what it was like to work at RBS, the extra things you can get involved with and the general work ethic that people follow there

Very well, it is clear that it is about quality at RBS. People start work at a reasonable time in the morning and usually leave at 5 on the dot. Their dedication to impeccable customer service is obvious and staff only had good things to say about the culture there

Very helpful, got a good overview of the different parts of the bank I had applied to see

I was reimbursed expenses, just kept receipts

There were slots built into the week for networking during the week although there was a bit of a lack of people with which to network with other than the other inturns

Good, drinks and nibbles were provided and the sessions were around an hour and a half

Yes- we were told about CSR activities although no specific examples were provided and found out about a sustainability group from an employee after a bit of probing

Yes, really nice insight into the bank and the different sections, well organised, varied activities