Can you provide some examples of career paths in the business that follow the commercial banking graduate scheme?

Hi Mubariz. The opportunities and skills you learn on the graduate scheme provides yourself with endless career path options. Once the scheme has finished, you will have the option to roll off into one of the teams within the commercial bank.

Thanks Hardaker! Could you provide some insight into your role and what lead you to follow the path you have taken instead of another team?

Hi - I'm on the Real Estate team at the moment as it's my first placement (always random). The second, third and fourth placements are ones you can pick. In terms of which teams you pick, that depends on you as a person and where you want to take your career. If you're a people person and want to talk to clients then a highly analytic team where you're crunching numbers will not be for you - vice versa.

I see, that sounds very interesting! How are you finding the Real Estate team, and what is it the team does? Also when it comes to choosing your other placements, what is the process (do you have speed networking with the desks that are looking for grades etc)?