Jessica, a Retail MT, gives her best piece of advice for differentiating yourself at interview or assessment centre stage and drums home a key message from the Leadership theme – take every opportunity to take the lead!
Leaders can take many different forms, including those on the HSBC graduate scheme. A leader is described as someone who can get all to follow a common task for some common goals. So what can you do to be prepared for leadership within our schemes? More...
In this blog, Sean from the Operations Leadership program looks to the World of football for clarity on what makes a great leader. An Arsenal fan who declares Sir Alex the best manager and puts light praise towards a Tottenham star, the key message is to look to lead in every situation you find yourself and not wait for somebody else to take the reigns.
Who are football’s great leaders? Who is football’s greatest leader? What is a leader?
It is easy when looking at leadership to think of the boss, the manager the decision maker, but looking into something such as football, it becomes less clear who the leader is and furthermore if such a role specifically exists. More...
Employability. It’s a word you are likely to hear on a daily basis during your time at university. But what is employability? What makes us more employable? How can you use your experience and skills to prove to an employer that you have the employability they are looking for?
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If you are filling out your very first application to a graduate programme you are probably going to have it rejected. You may believe that you are perfect for the advertised role and hence you might have pored over your responses to the questions for hours trying to get the responses just right. But you will still probably face rejection.
Rest assured that this is no reflection on your ability to function in a business environment or your qualifications. It is simply the case that the majority of candidates will fall at several hurdles before receiving that all important offer letter. More...
Waiting for an important phone call is perhaps one of the most agonising things in life. And that wait was no different.
It was on a cold, but otherwise nondescript day in March 2010 that I found myself encountering the nerve-wracking and seemingly endless wait for a phone call.
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Brad, a new Executive Trainee graduate, is going to be regularly blogging about his experiences as he progresses through the Executive Management Graduate Programme. Keep an eye out for video updates which will be a real insight in to what to expect from a position in 'The World's Leading International Bank' straight from Brad to you...
Pascal - Executive Management Trainee
The assessment centre, held in HSBC’s Canada Square headquarters, is the final stage in the application process for the graduate programmes and internships. Current graduates are on hand throughout the day to answer any questions applicants might have about what it’s like working at HSBC. As an applicant, it’s a great chance to get a feel for the culture of HSBC, to meet the kind of person who you might soon be working with, and to ask all the “informal” questions you might not want to ask the interviewer. Hopefully the current graduates also help calm nerves and let candidates give their best performance! More...
Graduate Belal recently landed a job on the Executive Management scheme at HSBC. In this article, he talks about his advice on the application process. Its worth a read!
http://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/graduate-jobs-hsbc
To briefly set some context, I joined the Bank five years ago on the Technology & Services Graduate Scheme. Since then, I have transitioned successfully into my first and second ‘permanent’ positions and have just about stopped thinking of myself as a ‘Graduate Trainee’, though I will always be keen to remain part of the wider graduate community. More...