The Retail Banking Graduate Programme
The Barclays Retail Graduate Scheme is essentially a succession of possibilities. If you want to do something while working on the scheme, the chances are you'll to do it. You'll have the support of a graduate development team, who'll give you the right nudges in the right direction to make sure the area you work for is left with your unmistakable stamp all over it.
You'll move through rotations within the Retail Bank business and in turn will develop your understanding of how to deliver great customer service, stretch your strategic capability and test your leadership skills. If you're not being challenged, you're not going to be doing it for very long.
Your first eight weeks
These will give you an in-depth understanding of the front line. By working closely with our branch managers, personal bankers, specialist team members and cashiers, you'll find out how our branches operate day to day and how we keep our customers happy. You could also discover how our Premier Bank and Financial Planners work within our branches to deliver for our customers. And you'll receive an in-depth immersion in how all the parts of our retail bank work together.
Placement 2
Armed with a good grounding in business operations, you'll now have the chance to train as a Branch Manager. You'll learn how to pinpoint the qualities essential for success in your branch and hire people with the right qualities for front-line roles.
Placement 3
You'll take on a strategic project for the executive leaders in your business. Whatever is critical to the business at the time, you can be sure you'll play a key role in turning ideas into action and solving an issue.
Meanwhile, you'll carry on working with your mentors to identify how you need to develop in order to get where you want to go. You'll also be able to study for professional qualifications and learn about other areas of the Retail Bank.
Within Barclays, if you're good enough, you're old enough. There will not be a time when the length of your career with Barclays is something that holds you back. We have seen graduates working for area teams in varying roles, managing branches, and even supporting entire regions with presentations and innovative operational ideas. Exposure, on a potentially rather grand scale, this definitely is.
