Llloyds Group IT Apprenticeship

Haha! Thanks for the luck

I just wish they would tell me, the wait is torturous.

Hi,

I recently applied for Lloyds Group IT Apprenticeship and had an assessment centre on 3rd September. Still yet to hear anything back although I was given a time frame of 7-10 days.

Just wondered if anyone else had applied for the same or similar position and has heard anything back.

Thanks

I've never applied for an apprenticeship before, I'm an employee, but I know what you mean.. I had to go through 2 online stages (including personality tests and things) before I had my interview. Thankfully though I got my job offer at the interview itself so didn't have a painful wait after that stage lol, hopefully it will be the same for you

Hi Sazzy, could you please tell me what the interview was like when you had yours? just so i know what to expect if i do get through to the next stage? (it's for another Lloyds apprenticeship scheme). I'm not that great in interviews, how did you prepare for them? how many questions will they ask for their three core values? is reading the annual report good enough? and do they ask commercial awareness questions so what's affecting the banking sector etc? if so, are there any links (similar site to accountancy age but for issues relating to banking you could please send me?

Thanks in advance.

My job is very different to Group IT so the questions may be different (I work with mortgages). However they did not focus on commercial awareness type questions, nor did they ask me specifically about the bank or their core values etc (although they may ask you why you applied for the job/why you want to work for the bank and therefore having some knowledge of the bank may be relevant here). They focused on my experience, asking me for examples of when I've had to work as part of a team to get something done, what my most challenging experience was and how I overcame that, how I would react if I had an abusive customer (probably not likely to be a question they'll ask you for yours ), things like that.

Just be yourself, think up the answers before you go (don't rehearse them though otherwise you'll just sound fake but think about the sort of thing you could reply if they were to ask you questions like that, and think of examples of different situations e.g. examples of a stressful situation, a challenging situation, a challenging customer, situations where you've helped to develop an idea to improve the business (Lloyds are very keen on people who come up with new ideas to help improve processes etc) etc etc.

Got a call this morning from hyphen to say that I got the job! So happy, relieved and excited!

Best of luck mightyfrog!

Hi,

I recently applied for Lloyds Group IT Apprenticeship and had an assessment centre on 3rd September. Still yet to hear anything back although I was given a time frame of 7-10 days.

Just wondered if anyone else had applied for the same or similar position and has heard anything back.

Thanks