Banking consultant Review

I am a banking consultant. I service customers looking to open bank acounts, credit cards, loans, savings accounts and overdrafts. the job i do is enjoyable, it is customer focused and has quite a high level of responsibility which i find has helped me develop having taken the role straight from sixthform.

My unerstanding of retail banking and financial products has grown massivly; i know things about banking that my parents dont even know and i feel it will serve me well for the rest of my life. meanwhile i have gained lots of transferable skills such as customer service, team working and sales. these are skills i have learnt throgh work however an not neccessairly my apprenticeship which realistically hasn't helped me a great deal.

i enjoy my job a good deal. it is a good job with great prospects. however the apprenticeship itself ofers little added value to the role. the coordination of the apprenticeship is poor. there is some level of work outside of my actual job which isnt very well orgainised and the qualifaction i gain from it has little relavance to my role. i did expect more from the 'apprentice' side of the role when i initially applied.

lloyds banking group as an employer has ben very good, there are a great number of perks, i am pleased with my salary given my age and expereience level and i know that in my career if i am dedicated and take ownership of my career i will be supported.

not at all really. the staff i work with know little of the apprenticeship scheme i am on. the qualifiaction has no relavance to my role and isnt particulalry well recognised in the industry. my appprenticeship co ordinaor is poorly orgaininised and the scheme is 18 months from when i started however we werent introduced until i had been with the comapny almost three months. we are supposed to meet monthly and this has rarely been adhered to. ovreall the added value of the apprenticeship has been poor. especailly given i would have to pay a fee of £150 if i decided to leave the comapny or seek a new role outside of the apprenticeship.

little. the qualification i am training for isnt very weel covered by my provider and i have received more help from other colleagues. my provider doesnt take into account my own goals or career plans and i have little guidance around my apprenticeship from my provider

a lot, they allow me plenty of time to revise for my exams and time to met with the co ordinator. i can have time off to comlpete my exams. they do have my long term career in mind.

i have worked in a number of branches in my first year with the compnay and have moved around a lot, both to persue new challanges and to meet the needs of the company. at one point i was very far from home and the daily travel costs were massive, no help was given to cover these the few months that i was there, but i have now been relocated to my home town branch and this has saved me lost of money, time and stress.

there are some opportunities outside of work. each branch is different in how social they are and how engaged the are with charty events. if you were to take ownership staff anf managment are accomodationg if you wanted to run charity events and the like.

Yes

career prospects, potential training,

get your head down and work hard if you show commitment theyll show it back