Do they take on people from smaller universities and without any special qualifications for the industry?
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Sure!
I asked a friend and here’s her advice:
I think the easiest way to transition is through grad schemes (1-2 year programmes). Banks like Lloyds, HSBC, Barclays etc all have graduate programmes open to all degrees.
If you check banking recruitment pages, you should find quite a few stream option (capital markets, private clients, IB, commercial banking etc).
I would also sign up to the mailing list so you’re notified when the scheme apps start and apply early as possible. She applied for a grad programme in May and was through the whole process by early June.
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Both my friends are from non-Russell group unis - also don’t think there are special qualifications needed.
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I wouldn’t worry too much about it being rolling basis. I went to an open day with HL last year and grad rec said they recommend submitting apps about a week before the deadline.
I got the impression they only gave that recommendation for our sake too, ensuring we don’t face any technical difficulties etc.
Checked the timetable - we’ll hear back 25/26 so next week 😁
It's just known that HL do their applications for both cycles (Winter & Summer) on a rolling basis, it can also be found on other websites where the position is posted; they will say they review applications on a rolling basis.
Although it is not very nice of them to not make it obvious on their website, I really wouldn't worry. If you have a strong application, I'm sure it won't matter if it's on a rolling basis.
I found a few websites saying non-rolling and a few saying rolling and the trainee I know there said she thought it was non-rolling + the TCLA list says non-rolling (confirmed by email). That's so annoying, I've had my application pretty much ready for a month but hadn't sent it in case I did ended up doing something I wanted to include in the time afterwards
WHY CAN'T FIRMS JUST SAY IT ON THEIR WEBSITE INSTEAD OF LEAVING YOU TO GUESS
(Thank you for letting me know though!)
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Hii there, good morning! Would you please kindly share the type of questions in the OT? Just the SJTs or there are also online interview? Thanks so much!
Hii there, good morning! Would you please kindly share the type of questions in the OT? Just the SJTs or there are also online interview? Thanks so much!
Hii there, good morning! Would you please kindly share the type of questions in the OT? Just the SJTs or there are also online interview? Thanks so much!
Hii there, good morning! Would you please kindly share the type of questions in the OT? Just the SJTs or there are also online interview? Thanks so much!
Dear XXX
Thank you very much for applying to HFW. This is to confirm that we have received your application and we will review it in due course.
As we receive a very high volume of applications we regret that we are unable to provide feedback at this stage of the recruitment process.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards.
The Early Careers Team at HFW
Does this mean they rejected me their wording is confusing lol.
Thank you very much for applying to HFW. This is to confirm that we have received your application and we will review it in due course.
As we receive a very high volume of applications we regret that we are unable to provide feedback at this stage of the recruitment process.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards.
The Early Careers Team at HFW
Does this mean they rejected me their wording is confusing lol.
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I think they are just trying to limit responses to the email, and that as they have said your application is under review and therefore still under consideration
Not just you. I also thought the deadline was 1st of august. Some social charities that were sending reminders were publishing that it was 1st august then suddenly on 1st July decided to announce that it was that nightidk if i was imagining things, but i genuinely thought the freshfields TC deadline was the 1st of august so i completely missed it
in other news, i got invited for a VI at eversheds sutherland a few hours ago for their TC - you win some you lose some!
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