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Starting your career

Opening up a world of opportunity

With a network spanning 58 countries and territories, at HSBC you can work across global boundaries and build a thriving career that goes way beyond banking. Whether you’re developing your skills to become an Investment Banker, Relationship Manager, Cyber Security Specialist, or Data Analyst, you’ll get the training, global connections and support you need to succeed. Join a global community of over 200,000 colleagues and be part of something bigger.

At HSBC we’re interested in your skills, not what you studied. We welcome students from all backgrounds. With our support, you’ll build on the behavioural skills you have today to develop the technical skills required for the future. A career at HSBC could take you in directions you never imagined. Use our skills matcher tool to see where you’d fit best at HSBC.(opens in new window)

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We offer different entry routes depending on where you are in your academic career.

Apprenticeships

Our Foundation and Degree Apprenticeship programmes provide those who may not have gone to university with another route into a challenging and rewarding career with us.

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Work experience

Our UK work experience programmes are for students in school, college, or sixth-form education (years 10-13). The week-long programme is a great way to prepare for the world of work, build crucial skills, and experience what life is truly like in a leading global organisation.

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Our Insight programmes are open to first- or second-year university students, and recent graduates, who want to get a greater understanding of the finance industry, learn more about our opportunities and experience our company culture before applying to our internships.

They generally run for four days and are offered in various markets.

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Our Internships are mainly for students in their penultimate year of undergraduate study and typically run for eight to ten weeks. Your internship will be the beginning of your skills development journey, preparing you to join our graduate programme at the end of your studies.

Internships are typically offered in mainland China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK and USA. We also offer work placement programmes, which generally run for 6-18 months, in France, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK.

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Our graduate opportunities are open to final year students, recent graduates and post-graduates.

As a graduate with us you’ll complete a skills development journey which will prepare you to assume a specific role at the end of the programme and support your future career development.

Our Graduate Programmes typically run in mainland China, Hong Kong, India*, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan, the UAE, UK and USA.

We recruit for our programmes in India via on-campus events. Please check your campus event news for upcoming dates of our visits.

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How we support you

We welcome neurodiversity

We look for people with different ways of seeing the world.

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We value difference

We understand that having diversity of beliefs, upbringings, values and thoughts makes us stronger.

We succeed together

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