Natalya - Retail Management Trainee
Startled and disorientated! Ahhh!!! I wake up with a surprise as my typical mornings start with the alarm ringing at 6:40am, with another 10 minutes being taken for me to acclimatise to being awake when it is still dark! I spend an hour having breakfast containing fruits and yogurt, watching the BBC news channel and making myself presentable for the day. More...
Festive Greetings!
From everyone in the Graduate Blog Team, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We hope that you have enjoyed our articles this year and please keep coming back as we have some very interesting articles and videos coming very soon!
Michael, Nikhil, Jenna, Tom, Helen, Pooria and Mohamed
Are you keen to apply to HSBC but want to find out a bit more about what is required? As graduates ourselves we all recognise how daunting the recruitment and selection process can appear, which is why we’ve filmed this short video to give you a few tips. More...
Joey – HTS Management Trainee
I write this article having been in my first placement as a HTS graduate for a duration of two months...and believe me when I say; it has flown by faster than Usain Bolt running the 100metres! More...
Pascal – Executive Management Trainee
Since joining HSBC, there have been plenty of moments where I’ve asked myself: “how on earth did I get into this situation?”. One of those was during the final ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro with some fellow graduates, where people were dropping off with temporary blindness, swollen brains, and hallucinating under the influence of altitude sickness (boulders turning into dancing pigs?) More...
Ilias - Fraud Prevention Strategy Manager (HTS Management Alumni)
Hello everyone/ Γεια σε όλους!,
Until the end of October, I was an HTS Graduate on my leadership placement in Payments and Commercial Operations (P&CO). Now I am starting my first appointment as a Fraud Prevention Strategy Manager at Regional Security and Fraud Office. So the timing is perfect for me to conclude my time with the Graduate Programme by writing about my last week as a Graduate. More...
James - Business Partner Manager (HTS Management Alumni)
When asked to do a blog entry, I thought it was a great idea, my chance to speak to the masses (or the few who might actually read it!). I tried writing a ‘day in the life’ style blog, but there’s only so much you want to read about meetings and business cases. Instead I’ve tried to give my perspective on one of the bigger concepts that affect graduates at work – the organisation itself. More...