The 2014 FCA Graduate Development Programme thread

I'm assuming this is the Financial Conduct Authority? If so yes I applied! And I fell at the first hurdle. I didn't pass the situational judgement tests ( I always fail those things). Luckily it was the first part of the application so I didn't spend ages answering questions or anything.

Sorry I can't offer any info!

If you're like the look of the FCA grad scheme you should also look at the Financial Ombudsman Service, they hire a lot of graduates (I failed their situational judgement test too, sucksss)

That sucks, you should go on assessment day or something and practice! Where is the Financial Ombudsman service grad scheme, I can't find it?

Yeah tbf I've only done 2...I should really practice. I focused so much on practicing numerical and verbal reasoning tests I completely ignored the situational ones!

Ooops sorry that was a bit misleading, they don't have a gradscheme as such but when they recruit they have a lot of opportunities for graduates, so over the summer they recruited a lot of new case workers so it's worth checking their site every now and then to see if they've got any new opportunities. I know someone who worked for them as a caseworker and someone who works in HR and it sounds like they recruit quite often

Im applying too! what area r u interested in? im interested in policy risk and research... something like that haha. will do the situational tomorrow, after revising a bit, lol, dont want to fail that one >.<

how long did it take for the FCA to get back to you after the motivational questions

I've just had and passed my telephone interview, so onwards to assessment centre stage. I have to say that the website seems a little broken, though...

Phone interview next week! Does anybody know if there are one or two assessment centres after this stage?

Hi Guys I've applied for the 2014 Grad Scheme, and have been invited to complete an online further assessment, any idea what that is? I've already done a situational judgement test.