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Credit Suisse

If you’re looking for a business opportunity in the burgeoning and diverse EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Asia) market, then Credit Suisse is a good place to start. This Swiss financial services organization offers several great options for undergraduates and graduates looking to experience the financial world first-hand. They offer both internships and full-on graduate training programs which can help to build resumes or completely launch careers. The Credit Suisse EMEA campus provides a unique exposure to many different cultures and languages that is both personally enriching and practical for business.

The training programs offered by Credit Suisse cover a variety of specific business interests, and accept people from many different backgrounds and disciplines. The one thing that all of those accepted into their programs have in common is that they are exceptionally motivated and talented. These programs are designed to help hone those natural skills into true business acumen. All of their learning programs combine elements of hands-on, on-the-job training, direct instruction, and mentoring programs for a well-rounded educational experience.

Credit Suisse offers full-time programs and internships for would-be analysts and associates in several different specific areas as well as quantitative positions. Internships are offered in the fall for the analyst program, and in the summer for the associate and quantitative programs. Lasting 10 weeks, these internship programs have a reputation of being among the most exhaustive in the industry of finance. Over the course of the internship program, you’ll take part in both classroom training and on-the-job work with real-world challenges and tasks. You’ll have also have a lot of opportunities for networking at a variety of teambuilding and philanthropic events. In order to help you through this difficult process, you’ll have access to general program managers as well as a personal mentor.

Those who perform exceptionally well during their internship are provided with a direct line into Credit Suisse’s full-time graduate programs. So if you really manage to set yourself apart from the crowd, you are rewarded with a nice head-start on your career.

Full-time graduate programs with Credit Suisse are, of course, much more in-depth. Successful applicants will go through up to 7 weeks of training in London before moving to their permanent home. Once there, on-the-job and classroom training continues, thoroughly preparing the applicant for all the vital aspects of the business. Needless to say, one must have completed their degree and also shown exceptional skills and qualifications in order to achieve one of these positions.

Credit Suisse also offer a 5-day spring training program that is designed around exposing first- or second- year students to the broad elements of the banking business. This program, which takes place at the Credit Suisse offices in London, includes a detailed explanation of how all of the different aspects of the business come together to create a winning formula. It also gives potential future hires an idea of where they might find themselves fitting in to the company. Even to be accepted for this short program requires the applicant to show superior potential through academic record and extraordinary drive.