Graduate / Analyst

A colleague asks you for help on a topic which you know a little about, but which you don’t feel very confident in. How do you respond?

Offer to help the colleague with the knowledge you have

Offer to connect the colleague to someone else you know who is better versed in the topic

Suggest the colleague gets additional information from a different source

You arrive alone at a cocktail party and walk into a large room buzzing with many people, most of whom are unfamiliar. What do you do first?

You head straight for the drinks table to get yourself a drink

You start chatting to the first person in front of you who you don’t know

You scan the room for anyone you might know and head there first

You are choosing a restaurant to go to with a small group of friends from out of town. Which are you most likely to do?

Ask everyone what they would like to eat and find a consensus to book in advance

Do some online research and find a new restaurant with good ratings that you haven’t been to before

Go to your old favourite that you know is good

Wait until the same evening and decide spontaneously depending on everyone’s mood

You are asked to prepare an informative presentation for colleagues about a complex technical subject that you are already quite familiar with, but which is very complicated for others to understand. How do you begin work on the presentation?

List all of the details that you think are important to include and then structure the presentation from that

Sketch out a high-level outline of the subject and then fill in the details

Try to come up with a novel or entertaining way to approach the subject

You encounter a roadblock in a piece of work you have been given to complete and are not sure how to proceed. What is your immediate next step?

Ask your boss about it

Reach out to your colleagues to see if they can help

Do some searching online to look for a way around the roadblock

Put it aside and work on something else to come back to it with fresh eyes later

Imagine you are choosing a new place to live. Which of these are you more likely to base your choice on?

The place that offers the best features or value per square meter cost

The place that is closest to the people you know already living in the region

The place that reminds you most of your favourite family home

The place that offers the most radically different living experience from what you had before

You are travelling on holiday in a foreign country. Your flight to the next destination has been cancelled with no alternative transport until the next day. Which action would be most typical of you?

Take the hotel voucher and meal offered by the airline and go out to enjoy the city

Search online and speak to other airlines at the airport until you find another way to get where you’re going that evening

Realise that you have an old friend you haven’t seen in years in town and call them up to see if you can meet

You have a free weekend coming up with no plans. What are you most likely to do on the weekend?

Get in touch and arrange to meet a friend you haven’t managed to see in awhile

Go do a new activity or go to a venue that you have been meaning to try when you had time

Plan to relax and do your usual weekend activities

You are choosing a book to read. You choose:

The latest best-seller

The one your friend recently recommended

A non-fiction book on a topic you’ve been wanting to know more about

A favourite novel you’ve already read several times

A literary classic you’ve always meant to read

A book chosen at random from a shelf

You are listening to a lecture as part of your studies. How do you most likely act?

You try to take notes on as much of the detail as possible while the lecturer is speaking

You listen carefully and jot down some high level notes to remind yourself of the structure of what is covered

You rely on your friend’s good note taking

You record the lecture and plan to listen to it in detail again later

Your friends appreciate you most for:

Your warm and caring nature

Your trustworthiness

Your creativity

Your entertaining spirit

Your leadership and guidance

Your knowledge and insight

The word you associate most with teams is:

London – 2025 Graduate Programme – Transactional Banking