Working at Lloyd’s isn’t just about learning the ins and outs of the world’s leading specialist insurance market. Naturally, this plays a fairly important role, but on both the graduate scheme and beyond personal development in all areas is given significant emphasis.
It is up to you how much or how little you get involved in [...]

I can’t believe it’s already been two months since I started my second placement at a Lloyd’s syndicate. It’s a busy world out here.
The first part of my placement has been with a team of aviation underwriters. Like most people I really didn’t know much about aviation insurance before I joined—but it has proved to [...]

I hope you’ve all been getting your applications in quickly because the deadline is fast approaching (31 January)  and the assessment centres have already begun. 
I heard a rumour that the first assessment centre got underway the other day, so I popped up to the 11th floor to have a look and see how people were getting [...]

 Time to meet the team—the people who I’ll be spending the majority of my day with for the next six months.
 
When I was first taken to my area I was given a quick once over of the surroundings: an inviting window-facing desk; an approachable looking team…things were looking promising.
 
I was introduced to everyone in the [...]

After the first week of inductions – which Tom, Jay and Pavlos, have covered – I joined my team: Underwriting Performance.
I’d chosen to join Underwriting Performance because I wanted to understand how business is done at Lloyd’s and the role that the Corporation plays.

After a really enjoyable induction week we headed off to join our respective teams. Again, there was an element of apprehension as we were now going to be split up. I was going to join the Market Operations and North America directorate, but didn’t know a lot more than that! 
During the induction week I’d met [...]

So my time had come and my first day at Lloyd’s was upon me. There was an apprehensive feeling of the unknown in the air, not knowing if I’d get on well with my team, enjoy the work or even fit in with the culture at Lloyd’s…luckily all these ideas were quashed in my first [...]