frisby

Could anyone shed some light on the type of work and responsibility likely to be found within the area of Corporate banking as a graduate.

cheers

fris

DJFish

You earn **** loads of cash and can get away with murder!
(If your anything like the chap my G/F's company have employed.

Dave

dsmith

Thats IT you're thinking about there

Matt Churchill

It depends on where you go to from what I know. If you go into a major high street bank, you will go through a number of different attachments in different areas of the bank, and then will "basically" get to pick where you want to end up. This may well be corporate banking.

I think if you go straight into a corporate bank, then you will still go around various aspects, but you will of course be in corporate banking all the time.

As far as where you may end up, will very much decide on what your strengths are, either customer facing or some supprt function/project work.

Hope this is of some help.

Matt

Dave P

Frisby not sure if you mean Investment Banking. Most Investments Bank's have little realtionship to the high street banks. For a start they tend to earn more!!!

Most of the big houses run Graduate Training schemes. To get on one of these you need to apply and the cv's are whittled down to a number that are invited to a screening day, this will include panel interviews, workshops, tours, numerical and written tests, group and individual exercises.

If you pass this there are different areas where grads end up, operations, IT, Corporate Finance, trading etc. Most banks run a rotation system on a 3 to 6 month basis. You will be appraised at the end of each period. At the end of your time there will normally be bids for you, you seldom have a choice.

If you are still at Uni it is worth trying to get an internship during the summer holidays.

I've been a manager at a couple of houses now for a few years now so if you wnat more info mail mer off line.

Dave