Financial services and insurance graduate jobs, internships and expert careers advice.
Search for graduate jobs in financial services and insurance, training schemes and placements
- Financial services and insurance jobs and schemes
- Financial services and insurance internships and placements
All you need to get your graduate career in financial services off to a flying start and get hired.
Read up on the essentials of choosing the right graduate scheme, writing a great job application, impressing at assessment centres and getting an internship. Find out more about areas of work including actuarial work, insurance and retail banking. Get the insider view from recent graduates and be up to speed on professional training and qualifications. You can also search for graduate jobs in financial services and find internships with top finance firms.
Job descriptions
- Pension scheme manager: job description
- Actuary: job description
- Retail banker: job description
- Insurance broker: job description
- Insurance claims inspector: job description
- Insurance risk surveyor: job description
- Insurance underwriter: job description
- Loss adjuster (chartered): job description
Areas of work
- Actuarial: graduate area of work
- Insurance: graduate area of work
- Regulation and compliance: graduate area of work
- Retail banking: graduate area of work
- Risk management in finance: graduate area of work
- Insurance loss adjusting
Interview techniques
Applications and CVs
- Acing online application forms for insurance and retail banking graduate jobs
- Application secrets: succeeding at the Financial Services Authority's application form
- How to write a graduate CV for retail banking, insurance and actuary jobs
- Would your application form answers get you a finance interview?
- Answering the 'why us?' question on financial services application forms
Skills and competencies
- The top skills retail banking, insurance and actuarial employers want
- Graduate employers want client skills as well as numeracy in their actuaries
Sector essentials
- All degrees are fine for a graduate job in financial services
- Financial services: investment banking's 'little sister' steps out of the shadows
- From graduate job to a well regulated career: an interview with hotshot Hector Sants
- Getting a financial services, retail banking or insurance job with a 2.2
- How do I get a graduate job in financial services?
- Meet your match: which financial services employer will offer you the right graduate career?
- Applying for finance graduate jobs in your final year? Your survival guide
Internships and work experience
- My financial services internship
- Getting work experience and internships in retail banking, regulation, insurance and financial services
Professional training and qualification
- Professional bodies: helping your graduate insurance or actuarial career
- Professional qualifications in focus: training to progress your insurance or actuarial career
- How to stand out as a future finance leader in your first job
Assessment centres
- Succeed at graduate assessment days for retail banking, insurance and actuary jobs
- How to impress at a Mercer graduate assessment centre
Recruiter view
Expert view
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- Recruiter view: How to get hired as a graduate insurance loss adjuster, by GAB Robins
- Areas of work: Insurance loss adjusting
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- Internships and work experience: Getting work experience and internships in retail banking, regulation, insurance and financial services
Get a head start and get hired by top financial services and insurance employers
Researching employers and getting ready for applications? We've done the work for you and compiled top tips on how to get hired by some of the UK's leading financial services and insurance firms! Get insights into top finance graduate employers and their applications, interviews and assessments:
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