D-Day
Posted by Laura Gaweda | Graduate blog on Tuesday 07 February 2012, 12:24PM Share
It seems barely any time since we joined Lloyd's but it's already time to think about our second rotation on the graduate scheme.
It's been 21 weeks, five pay days and over 100 early morning, bleary-eyed trips to the Lloyd's Coffee House since we joined the grad scheme. Time has gone by scarily quickly and it's unbelievable that decision-time has rolled around again.
I sometimes have trouble choosing between a KitKat and a Snickers when the 3pm energy dip strikes so deciding on my next career move is taking a bit of deliberation.
First of all – Corporation or market? As part of the graduate scheme, we spend six months working with syndicates in the market, which is a valuable opportunity to get to the heart of where Lloyd's business comes from. The placements vary from operations to claims to underwriting so there’s a wide range of jobs to choose from.
The roles within Lloyd’s are also varied – I could be working on protecting our international licences, researching emerging risks or monitoring the performance of the market to name just a few. Now I’ve been here a few months, I’ve realised just how many interesting interlocking parts there are to this organisation – which only makes it harder to choose between them!
For me, a large part of the attraction of the graduate programme was its generalist nature – I didn’t want to be pigeonholed from the start of my career, and the opportunity to try my hand at a number of things held a lot of appeal. So I can’t really complain about having too many opportunities - 'diamond shoes' and 'too tight' would spring to mind…
How am I going to make the final decision? I’ve considered a number of ways – not least the ever-popular 'eeny meeny miny mo' and 'name out of a hat' techniques. But in the end, I'm going to do what brought me to Lloyd's and to my current role in Communications in the first place - follow my instincts. It's worked pretty well so far.
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