Senior Research Assistant Review

My role involves speaking to other teams in the bank, and helping them to complete internal projects. This involves interactions with other teams inside the bank. My daily tasks involve speaking to other teams, organising project sprints, taking a lead in the project sprints and also planning for project.

While being at the bank, I have upskilled in many areas: including Excel, R, Databricks, Azure and PowerBI. I have also developed my communication skills. More so, I have developed my public speaking skills.

I thorougly enjoy the programme. I think it has great structure, I also think the level of support is great.

Very well organised and structured. One day a week, I take a study day to complete my degree part of my apprenticeship.

I believe my line manager offers a great deal of support, as well as other colleagues in my team. More so, I believe that the other apprentices in my cohort also offer support as we are completing the same route.

I would say the support from Kent University could defintley be better. Although I have an apprenticeship supervisor, I would say the support on learning the modules and the module work could defintley be improved.

My qualification is in Economics, but I work in a data role. Because of this, I see very little links between the degree and my role. Although the degree helps me to gain further knowledge into economics, this is hard to applied into my role, but is good background knowledge.

Yes, there are many extra curricular activities. These can range from all different types of sport, to chess and painting. There are many extra curricular activites which provide an envoriment in which is easy to network.

Yes

I believe the environment is friendly, and one with little pressure. Everyone is willing to help you, no matter how big or small the question is. I also believe that there are many different opportunities in the bank.

Be yourself and be honest. They are investing in you as a person, not your knowledge! I would also advise to grab every opportunity your given with both hands.