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The Spring Insight programme is a four-day programme offering first year students a taste of life within the Corporate, Commercial and Investment Banking division of Standard Chartered. You will find out exactly what a career with us could look like, with an opportunity to be considered first for our 2025 paid summer internship programme. Our internship programmes, in turn, act as a pipeline into our graduate opportunities.
Spring Insight 2024 will take place from April 8 - 11 2024.
Who can apply?
We are committed to continuing to build a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the communities in which we operate, where different perspectives are valued. To foster diversity at every level of the Bank, we particularly encourage applications from Black Heritage students, those from the LGBTQ+ community and from low socio-economic backgrounds, as these are currently underrepresented demographics within the Bank.
Eligibility criteria for all students are as follows
- Any degree discipline
- First year students (or second year if on a four-year course)
The programme
On joining the programme, you will be fully immersed into the banking world, with the opportunity to experience our culture, learn new skills and gain an understanding of the route you might want to take after university.
You will also
- Learn about Standard Chartered and our global structure
- Hear from senior leaders within our Corporate, Commercial and Investment Bank division which includes Financial Markets (Sales & Trading and Global Capital Markets) and Client Coverage (Corporate Banking)
- Meet with current graduates to find out what their day-to-day work looks like
- Shadow colleagues in different areas of the business
- Learn how to make an impact as an intern
- Attend CV review and interview tips sessions with our Early Careers Team
- Be considered first for our 2025 summer internship programme
Who are we looking for?
You don’t need any specific knowledge or experience of the financial services industry to join our Spring Insight programme. We are looking for potential. To us that means a hunger to learn, a curiosity to understand, and a passion to do the right thing. You’ll be motivated, enthusiastic, a confident communicator and ready to get involved in a variety of different challenges!
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our colleagues, clients and communities. And we’re on a journey to be the world’s most sustainable and responsible bank.
We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
- Time-off includes volunteering leave, maternity and parental leave for spouse/partner, compassionate leave, sabbatical leave, along with market competitive annual leave
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global
Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits - A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Travel and accommodation will be reimbursed for students outside of the immediate London area.
