Rating

9/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • Retail Development Programme Candidate Undertake most if not all role within the Barclays Branch I would interact with customers and colleagues on a daily basis. I would also attend university classes which where in blocks over the year. I was involved in work projects sponsored by various stakeholders within the business.

    10/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • I learnt to understand excellent service delivery, managing my workload, managing stakeholders, career management. I managed to embark on analytics within that I managed to develop my script / code writing, in SAS, SQL, and Python, I also managed to attend training with QlikView to become a QlikView developer and programmer.

    10/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • I thoroughly enjoyed my experience, I had the opportunity to switch roles in the branch and head office and got to understand the bigger picture of the organisation

    10/10

  • 4. How valued do you feel by Barclays?
  • I felt extremely valued, my development was the priority not only mine but for my managers and the university. I was always provided with challenging scenarios to learn and develop from

    10/10

  • 5. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • The programme was well organized

    10/10

  • 6a. How much support do you receive from your training provider?
  • I received all the support required, be it at work or for university purposes. The programme manager and early careers team worked in collaboration with the university so this provided a unqiue support network.

    10/10

  • 6b. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • Same as above

    10/10

  • 7. How well does your salary/package meet your costs?
  • improvement was required there maybe this has changed now

    6/10

  • 8. Are there many opportunities outside of work?
  • not sure never looked outsed

    5/10

  • 9. Would you recommend Barclays to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 9b. Why?
  • it's a great organisation to work for


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Barclays?
  • be yourself, show ambition and enjoy


Details

Degree Apprenticeship

Finance

Greater London

May 2018


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