{"id":783,"date":"2018-10-18T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=783"},"modified":"2018-10-18T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:17:11","slug":"my-placement-experience-lloyds-banking-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/my-placement-experience-lloyds-banking-group\/","title":{"rendered":"My placement experience – Lloyds Banking Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hi, I\u2019m Rosie and I am a final year BA Business Management with Employment Experience student. This blog post is about my placement year which I have just returned back from, the skills I developed and how I would recommend a placement year to everyone and anyone\u2026 so here\u2019s why!<\/p>\n

The application processes can be brutal, as you\u2019re spending considerable time on applications and often hear nothing back. I\u2019m happy to say it\u2019s all worth it when you finally secure a placement and know that it\u2019s not all been for nothing. The sense of achievement is a great feeling when you\u2019ve successfully got your first job and got your foot in the door. My placement was at Lloyds Banking Group. This is where your journey \u2013 and potentially your entire career \u2013 starts.<\/p>\n

My placement began a few weeks\u00a0after my final second year exam. My team were welcoming, supportive and most importantly I had a \u2018proper\u2019 role within the team, not just making the cups of tea and filing away documents. Without getting into too much detail of what I did in my day to day role due to confidentiality, I worked in the PMO (Project Management Office) for the Risk Division. We ensured all running projects were in line with their scope; finance, resources, planning, time and internal and external\u00a0\"\"governance. So what did I learn from\u00a0this role?\u00a0The ability to\u00a0question the status quo. The team had to complete numerous, tedious tasks, I booked myself on excel courses and took it upon myself to automate these tasks which are now heavily embedded into the team. Definitely got myself some brownie points there.<\/p>\n

Come Christmas time, the company was undergoing a huge restructure. It was good to experience this as it occurs quite often in larger organisations. I could see that morale of certain individuals dipped and others seemed happy to have the chance to do something new. Time for a team away day and a team building football game!<\/p>\n

On the back of the restructure, my role did change and I became a Risk Strategic Analyst. This meant that instead of checking projects whilst they were in the process of being delivered, I now decided which projects were to go ahead. With a set budget, which projects would benefit the group the best? To do this, my communication skills had to be excellent. I was now dealing with the board, the head of risk as well as many other senior members of staff. I had to learn how each individual preferred to be contacted, when was appropriate and be clear with why I was contacting them. Daunting to say the least.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So my year at Lloyds Banking Group was coming to a close. I enjoyed it so much I decided to go for the graduate programme that Lloyds Banking Group and the Risk Division had to offer. I\u2019m happy to say I was successful! I will be returning in September 2019. I would recommend a placement year just purely for the experience. I gained so much confidence, belief in myself and now as a Futures First ambassador for the Management School I will happily lead lectures for 200+ first year students. You definitely wouldn\u2019t have seen me doing that a year ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, I\u2019m Rosie and I am a final year BA Business Management with Employment Experience student. This blog post is about my placement year which I have just returned back from, the skills I developed and how I would recommend a placement year to everyone and anyone\u2026 so here\u2019s why! The application processes can be … Continue reading “My placement experience – Lloyds Banking Group”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,2,4,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}