Wealth Management Apprentice Review

As a wealth management apprentice you provide administrative support to client advisors and their assistance in order to free up their time as much as possible so that they can focus on providing a better client service. As the role goes on you gradually being to evolve into an assistant and pick up more client facing work.

Most definitely, coming from a sheltered school life to a independent career where you stand alone is great for learning new skills, especially social skills and confidence. It also has been majorly beneficial for improving my work ethic, work capacity and providing more diligence and care for the work that I produce. It has taught to me to be proud of the work that I do.

The program itself is fairly moderate, the tasks you embark on can often be simple, boring and desire a large amount of will power to get through them. However the program is a fantastic means to an end, it offers future possibilities that are extremely exciting and endless and for this it makes it worth doing. It is also fantastic for introducing someone into such a career, it is easy for people to overestimate their capabilities in such an environment as they simply cannot be aware of what they do not know - so although the pace feels slow at times this is for the benefit of those on the program even if they do not quite see it that way.

Very well. The program is now in its sixth intake and with this is improving every year. They have the exams down to a tee, providing sufficient study time and tuition support. They also provide extra learning sessions on work skills such as ''handling difficult conversations'' which all pitch in to help provide a well rounded education. There is also the comfort of knowing our program roles into a career and that we are not just there for the education, we are actually building a career.

All of the support required. As mentioned previously they provide study days once a week to work on your exams, as well as tuition sessions with specialist from Fitch Learning so that we can not just pass an exam, but understand it too. Aside from educational support the company also offers a lot of social support, no problem is too large for them to handle.

Plenty of support. I have had continual contact and support from the growth company who have been fantastic. I am currently nearing the end of my apprenticeship and focusing on the last of my coursework and I can most definitely feel the focus that the growth company has put on my work to help coach me through qualification.

Although the qualification can often feel like I am trying to humor an examiner as opposed to be relevant to my role, I can appreciate that the acquisition of knowledge and skills from the qualification is a gradual process and that although I will not realize a stark change in my capabilities, the qualification has most definitely helped me perform better in my role.

So many that there is too many to attend them all. We have many social 'networks' covering topics such as diversity, disabilities, veterans, LGBT etc.. as well as providing us with services such as the gym, client events which we can attend. The list is endless. I personally have found myself on the board of a network for apprentices, which is brilliant for encouraging pride in being an apprentice and helping make positive changes for apprentices at UBS.

Yes

Because I believe that this is an opportunity whereby an apprentice for once rivals a degree. It is a phenomenal opportunity with endless capabilities. There truly is a role for every person in this bank and with this they will be provided with whatever support it is that they might need along the way.

Be honest, be confident and be humble. Show the employer why you would like to work here, let them see your enthusiasm to learn and interest in the role that you are applying to. With this you must always remain humble, never act like you deserve the role, nor be over bearing.