Courses for Horses
Back in the early days of my Graduate Trainee scheme, we used to have regular conversations with the Graduate team about what kind of roles we would like to have when we moved into a “proper” management position. This would crop up again as your career progressed, because for the first few years of my time at Lloyds Bank, people were appointed to positions rather than having the opportunity to apply for something they were keen to do. I quickly became convinced that there was one big joke going on within HR and the Management development people (I know what you might be thinking, but stop that now!), because whatever you expressed as a preference you were almost bound to get the exact opposite. People expressing a desire to work in the City of London’s Corporate team, might be sent to a remote branch in Lostwithiel, while those wanting to go into an IT team seemed to end up in the Treasury. I had gone first to Lloyds Leasing (see previous post) and then into the Branch network su...