Applications and interviews

How to write a graduate CV for retail banking, insurance and actuary jobs

Showing on your CV that you can exceed targets and build good relationships will make you a graduate candidate that retail banking and insurance employers want to interview.

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Acing online application forms for insurance and retail banking graduate jobs

Insurance and retail banking employers’ application forms ask you about your motivations for applying, what makes you right for the job and what you’ve learned over the past few years. Here’s our essential advice on answering the questions.

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Application secrets: succeeding at the Financial Services Authority’s application form

How to get a graduate job with the FSA, the finance industry’s regulatory watchdog? Articulately expressing your motivations for wanting to work for the UK regulator is a good start.

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Would your application form answers get you a finance interview?

Calling all would-be graduate actuaries, retail bankers and insurance employees: a financial services recruiter reviews two applicants’ answers to standard application form questions. Would she interview them? Read on to discover where they’re going right… and wrong.

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A job well done: interviews for graduate schemes and roles in financial services

Which graduate recruiter asks you what an actuary is? And which insurance employers want to know what you have done in the past when a project goes wrong? What to expect at job interviews with insurance companies, actuarial consultants and retail banks.

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You’re hired! Assessment centres and graduate jobs in financial services

Lots of financial services firms use assessment centres to select the best graduates. Here’s what happens and how you can tick the big box called ‘impressing recruiters’.

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