Barclays Industrial Placement Programme recruitment

Barclays Corporate Banking Industrial Placement Programme

The Corporate Banking Industrial placement programme is your opportunity to experience the realities of life at a global corporate bank. It will also see you pick up some valuable skills and experience, and potentially take a massive step forward in your career.

Starting in late June, this 50-week programme will see you take on a real role, becoming an important member of a team within one of the following business areas:

•    Client Coverage
•    Product
•    Risk
•    Operations
•    Human Resources
•    Technology

With support from your own mentor, you’ll also complete your own special project, presenting the results to a panel of senior managers at the end of the programme.

By the end of your placement, you will have developed a broad range of valuable new skills and experience. If you perform well, we may also offer you a position on one of our full-time programmes when you graduate.

Rewards and benefits

In return for your contribution, we’ll offer you a competitive salary as well as several colleague benefits. In addition to this, there is plenty of recognition for successful projects and individual achievements.

Locations

You could find yourself working anywhere across our network of offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Generally speaking you will be placed according to the needs of the business at the time, as well as your individual development requirements. Wherever you’re based, you can be sure of high profile and challenging work that will stand out as making a difference to our organisation – and our clients.

We will also take into account any circumstances that might prevent you from being able to move into a particular role or location, and where possible will make any reasonable adjustments needed to find a solution that suits both you and the business.

Who we’re looking for

To join our industrial placement programme, you need to be on a sandwich degree course or be in a position to take a year off during your degree to attend the 50-week placement. We will need a confirmation letter from the university confirming the approval of the break in education and that you will be returning to university to complete your degree post the placement.

Additionally, you should be expecting to achieve a 2.1 degree (or equivalent). This can be in any discipline. You must also have passed GCSE English and Maths at grades A–C (or equivalent). We’re looking for people with some practical work experience already under their belt.

Beyond this, you should be able to demonstrate proficiency in the following behaviours:

•    Customer/Client focus
•    Commerciality
•    Risk management
•    Deliver solutions
•    Decision making
•    People development
•    Communication and influence
•    Collaboration.

Application and selection

Our application and selection process challenges you to demonstrate your potential in a number of different ways. The process takes 4-6 weeks to complete and comprises the following steps:

1.    Online application form
2.    Online numerical and verbal reasoning tests
3.    Telephone interview
4.    Assessment centre
5.    Offer

Barclays is committed to equal opportunity employment. As such we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process where necessary. If you think you have an illness, injury or disability that may impact your performance anywhere in the selection process, please contact us to discuss your personal circumstances.