Chris
Executive Trainee, London
After returning from an overseas placement in Hong Kong 3 weeks ago I'm working with Gregg, Ana, Jess and Simon in the Graduate Team at the moment, while I find my first post-scheme appointment. I've largely been working on a pack of new presentations and promotional materials for the alumni teams to use along with planning for the roll-out of the Discovery Day the Nottingham team ran last year. I came into work on Monday to a few photos my old manager had sent me from the leaving meal I had with my team in HK More...
Ask someone to describe a career in retail banking and the response is usually the same. They will probably scoff at the thought of it, pointing out that the branch manager of their bank made a grievous error once-upon-a-time on one of their transactions. They will infer that because one member of the branch staff made an error at one time all branch staff must have the intelligence of an ape, and that any person who chooses to work in personal financial services clearly couldn’t cut it in “real banking” More...