Markets intern Review

I've enjoyed lots of my internship, especially the people that i have met on it, both the staff that i've worked with and the other interns on the scheme have been great. Some aspects have been hard, it's difficult to feel like you're constantly being assessed but i suppose that's the nature of the internship.

On RBS markets you get two rotations. My first was in fixed income and i was on the relationship management desk, i was allocated quite a lot of work and felt like i did add a good level of value to the desk. My second rotation was within fx where i wasn't really allocated any work that would benefit the business. This section felt much more like an extended job interview rather than a job.

There's an effective line manager and buddy system, i felt like i received sufficient help being brought into the process but sometimes found it hard to go around the floor myself and introduce myself to other members of staff. Again this is probably a feature of most internships rather than specifically RBS.

For the first 5 weeks i was allocated enough work to be actively busy, i enjoyed this. In the second 5 weeks in fx i was busy on two weeks when preparing for the two presentations that i had, however for the majority of the time i wasn't very busy.

Again, for the first 5 weeks i was given quite a lot of responsibility however for the second five weeks i was given practically none.

There was a lot of people skills developed. It's the first time i've had to act with lots of others in a professional environment and this was definitely a learning experience. I've also gained some good product knowledge into a industry that i've never been exposed to before. Nothing that i've learnt on the internship will actually me with my degree (economics)

I've enjoyed working with lots of the people within RBS so in that sense that atmosphere is really positive. However RBS, especially CIB, isn't the most profitable business and you sometimes get the sense that changes are still to come.

It was organised efficiently, the line managers and people inside the business could probably have been better informed but overall i knew what i was doing.

Lots of people were willing to give you there time to learn so that was a positive investment in you. We also had a training week but i'm not sure how much that benefited us.

Unsure, decision to be made tomorrow. However the sucess rate in previous years has been arounf 30-40%

Yes, i got along well with my fellow interns and there was a good weekend/ after work environment.

I lived in student halls in Bethnal green and i cost £169 a week. You can make it cheaper or more expensive, especially with lunch, but on the whole it's expensive.

Very good, very close to shoreditch.

yeah played 5 a side a few times which was very enjoyable.