UK Global Research Industrial Placement

On our paid 13-month Global Research Industrial Placement in the UK you’ll learn how research affects our global operations and our diverse customer base.

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Your HSBC journey will be built upon - and thrive with - your skills.

We know how important it is to have the right skills, both for your future and ours. By building this skillset now, we’ll help you develop the agility to keep learning new skills throughout your career.

Over the course of 13 months, you’ll:

  • Become a key member of the team with your own goals to achieve and your own responsibilities to meet
  • Work alongside experienced professionals who are keen to share knowledge and help you develop
  • Discover what life with one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations is like
  • Learn how research is used to help our corporate and institutional customers, and how the advice and services we provide gives them the confidence to make their most important investment decisions
  • Gain a better understanding of how we build client relationships using research to back up everything we do
  • Develop your practical knowledge of markets and investing, as well as how to present data, and communicate effectively with clients
  • Prove yourself and earn consideration for a graduate role within our Markets and Securities Services business

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For: Candidates who have a placement year as part of their university degree
Duration: 13 months
Areas: Global Research
Start date: June 2025 onwards
Location: UK
London
Requirements:
  • Available to work full time from June 2025 onwards
  • Obtained, or expected to achieve, a minimum of a 2:1 Degree classification or higher or overseas equivalent to this
  • Fluent in English
Applications open: 17 September 2024
Applications close: 23 October 2024
Start date: June 2025 onwards

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