Students and Graduates Programmes

At HSBC, we don’t expect you to follow a set journey – we’ll support you to create your own. We’re interested in your qualities, not your qualifications. Not where you’ve been so far, but where you’d like to go next. No matter who you are, there’s a place for you here.

If you’re a university student or recent graduate, our programmes will teach you all the skills you need to shape change and deliver real impact for communities in all corners of the world.

• Technology: Work with the latest technology to make banking simpler, faster and safer for over 40 million clients and customers worldwide.
  
  • Engineering: Shape the future of banking tech. Solve real problems and make an impact on a global scale. 
  • Cyber: Work with the latest technologies to keep the bank and its customers secure. 
• Sales and investments: Work with financial products and services, making or guiding investment decisions for the bank and its clients, ranging from individuals to some of the world’s biggest organisations.
  
  • Investment Banking: Support high profile clients on complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and other fund-raising activities to drive their growth. 
  • Trading: Work in the fast-paced world of the financial markets, supporting the buying and selling of assets.
  • Sales and Investments: Sell our products and services, and/or advise clients ranging from governments and companies of all sizes to high-net-worth and other individuals.
• Relationship Management: Manage customer and client relationships in areas across the bank from commercial, to retail and investment banking. 
• Analysis and Data: Consult, advise, and guide internal and external clients and unlock the power of data in informing strategy and decision-making.
  
  • Data Analytics: Extract, analyse and interpret data to drive strategic decision-making for the bank. 

Join us and you’ll jump straight into a career full of potential and work on projects with the size and impact only HSBC can offer.

Internship and work placement programmes

On an internship or work placement, you’ll develop the skills you need to thrive and explore the opportunities that come with working for one of the world’s great international banks.

Graduate programmes

Our graduate programmes are your pathway to a career built on your skills, not the subjects you studied – and they could take you in directions you never imagined.

Explore available roles.

Application opening dates vary by location and programme. To be notified when applications open, join our Talent Community.

If you’re unsure of which area to apply to, use our Skills Matcher to find your best fit.