The CFGdegree is designed to give job roles or mentorship opportunities to students who successfully graduate from the programme.
What kind of roles are on offer?
Do I have to accept a job with the sponsoring company after completing the CFGdegree?
Why do some roles require a financial/background check?
What is the salary for the role?
What kind of roles are on offer?
The roles available are dependent on the sponsoring company. This can vary between a mentorship (learning-only opportunity), internship, fixed-term contracts and full-time/permanent roles. Most of our roles are full-time and permanent. Please read the job specification for each role carefully before submitting your form.
Students can only submit one form per cohort, so make sure you are certain about your first choice before submitting 📝
Do I have to accept a job with the sponsoring company after completing the CFGdegree?
Yes, if you are applying for a job opportunity. As part of you accepting a place on the CFGdegree, you will be asked to sign an agreement stating that you will accept a job offer from the sponsoring company if this is specified in the application (for example, mentorship opportunities often don't have a role attached).
Once the agreement is signed, receipt of your course certificate depends on the acceptance of the job offer and completion of any related interviews within the sponsor company.
Some students are offered CFG-sponsored places, which is an educational-only opportunity with no guaranteed role attached at the time of signing the agreement. CFG-sponsored students are required to be open to being put forward for roles with our partner companies as the opportunities arise.
UK students cannot apply to be CFG Sponsored - the team pick these students carefully after assessing all applications and will reach out to them directly. We do not always run UK CFG-sponsored places.
Why do some roles require a financial/background check?
Financial institutions in particular usually request a financial background check for all staff members. Some companies require this as an ongoing process, for example, every 5 years for existing staff members.
We encourage applicants to financial institutions, in particular, to complete a soft financial check from a website like ClearScore to check for anything in your financial history that may be flagged. If you have a CCJ on your record, this may be listed on a sponsor company credit check and may be raised by the hiring company during pre-employment screenings. If you are aware of anything at the application stage, please disclose this to the sponsor company.
What is the salary for the role?
If the role leads to a job opportunity and is not mentorship/educational only, each sponsor company has a different role on offer and details of the salary will be provided at the company interview stage. If this is not included in the interview sheet candidates receive once they are put forward to interview, the company has not disclosed the salary with us and this should be discussed at interview stage.
We do not publish the salary at the application stage as our aim is to match the right candidate to each sponsor company, so your choice can be based on the role and company that fits best for you, taking into consideration the advantages that different organisations have to offer beyond salary.
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