Application support

Once you’ve found your ideal Graduate programme, click the apply button to go to our Workday page. If you have an account with us already then you can log in, but if you don’t, you’ll need to create one.

We’ll ask you to answer a few questions to make sure you meet our criteria. It’s simple and quick.

Once you’ve submitted your application, you’ll be taken straight to your online assessment. You don’t have to start it straight away; if you want to come back to it you can. You’ll be able to come back to the assessments for up to 10 days after you submitted your application. You can access them through the link found in your Workday account.

Your first assessment will be work scenarios. This gives you an opportunity to find out more about the job and working at NatWest, and helps us to understand a bit more about you. You’ll be given some work-related scenarios along with some statements about how you could respond. You’ll need to decide whether the statement is more or less effective in that scenario. The work scenarios assessment is untimed but may take around 20-25 minutes to complete.

If you’re successful in work scenarios, the next stage is the reasoning skills assessment. This is an interactive assessment where you’ll apply your problem solving, numerical and reasoning skills. Reasoning skills is a timed assessment and you’ll have 36 minutes to answer the questions.

You’ll see more information once you launch the assessment, and you’ll get guidance and support along the way. What’s great about completing these assessments is that, regardless of the outcome, you’ll be sent a personalised feedback report to help with your development, regardless of where your career takes you.

Familiarising yourself, including taking practice tests can be really helpful to prepare and feel more confident, giving yourself the best opportunity to demonstrate your potential.

On our careers site we’ve provided detailed information about each assessment, as well as links to example questions which will allow you to experience what it’s like to take the assessment.

You’ll also have the opportunity see some practice questions at the start of each assessment, this will help you get a feel for the type of assessment you’ll be taking.

If you’ve successfully passed these initial assessments, it’s your opportunity to tell us more about you. This stage is a chance for us to get to know you better, and for you to share your motivation for joining NatWest Group, and why this job’s right for you.

You’ll be asked to record your responses to six questions using a videoed recording. There won’t be anyone on the other side of the camera so you can record your responses in your own time.

For some questions we’ll ask you to give us an example of how you’ve dealt with a particular scenario and for others, we’ll provide you with a hypothetical scenario and ask you to tell us about how you’d respond.

This stage should take around 20 minutes to complete.

Every one of our jobs is assessed against our Critical People Capabilities, which are the skills and behaviours important to help us succeed. Let’s break them down so you know what to aim for:

• Connected: To be inclusive, we need to be connected – communicating and collaborating with others, valuing the differences we all bring and delivering great things for our communities.
• Improver innovator: To be curious, we need to be improver innovators – generating ideas, continuously improving and reusing the best of what we have across the bank.
• Critical thinker: To be robust, we need to be critical thinkers – using data and information to make informed decisions, solve problems and keep ourselves and others safe and secure.
• Trusted advisor: To be sustainable, we need to be trusted advisors – using our expertise to make sure we build strong relationships, do the right thing and be considerate to others.
• Change ready: To be ambitious, we need to be change ready – delivering personal and organisational growth, continuously learning, and focussing on our resilience and wellbeing.

If you’re successful in the More About You stage, we’ll consider you for one of our virtual assessment centres, where you’ll complete a number of interactive activities. We receive a lot of applications, so there may be a little wait before we come back to you.

The assessment centre will run virtually using digital platforms such as Zoom. The activities have been designed to explore how you work on your own and collaboratively with others. This gives you lots of chances to show us what you can do, and gives us a rounded view of your skills and behaviours against our Critical People Capabilities.

Here at NatWest Group we want to champion your potential by enabling you to show your best self. If you have a disability, health or mental health condition, or if you’re neurodivergent and adjustments would support you in your assessment, there’ll be opportunities to let us know throughout your application journey.

We’ll have a confidential discussion and work with you to put in place any physical or non-physical adjustments you may need. Any information you share with us will only be used to make adjustments for your assessment and we won’t share this information with anyone else.

You’ll hear the outcome of your assessment centre within one week. If you’re successful, a member of our team will contact you to take you through your offer for the programme.

Applications for our programmes will remain open until we receive enough applications to complete our hiring. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new applications. Very occasionally we may open a role for a short time to new applications if things change. It’s important to take the time to make sure you’re making the right decision about the programme you want to apply for (you can only apply for one programme in one location) but please complete your application as soon as you can to make sure you don’t miss out.

No. If you apply for more than one programme, we’ll only accept your first application and won’t take any of the others forward. Please don’t make more than one application as it might slow your application down.

We will only accept your first application so please take some time to choose the programme that is right for you.

Please email our team.

If you don’t have the right to work in the UK, we’ll sponsor you if you’re made an offer. If you secure a role and require sponsorship, you’ll need to meet the criteria for the Skilled Worker (new entrant) Visa.

If you’re not sure on your right to work in the UK, or if you need more information, please visit the UK Government Visas and Immigration website.

If you’ve accepted an offer and are switching from a Tier 4 Student Visa to a Skilled Worker Visa you’ll need to do this from within the UK and before your Tier 4 Student Visa expires. You’ll also need to remain in the UK whilst your application is being processed, which will be 3 months before the programme is due to start.

If you’re applying from outside of the UK, or your visa expires before the programme begins, in some circumstances we may be able to support an out of country application.

Apart from our RBS International programme, which requires a 2:2 degree or above, all our other Graduate and Internship programmes require you to have achieved, or be on track to achieve, a 2:1 or above.

If you’ve studied overseas, your qualifications will need to be equivalent to our UK requirements. You’ll need to let us know on your application form what your qualifications are as they were awarded to you – we’ll check the UK equivalent if your application is progressed.

For the majority of our programmes candidates with any degree subject can apply – all you need is to be on track for at least a 2:1 (2.2 for our RBS International programme).

There are two exceptions to this. Our Quantitative Analyst programme requires you to have a Master’s degree or PhD in a STEM subject or quantitative finance. For our Risk Modelling programme, we are seeking a 2:1 in a STEM subject (preferably in a strong numerical discipline).

Yes. Our Graduate programmes are open to all regardless of graduation year.

Yes, if you meet the programme eligibility criteria.

Yes – however you’ll still need to meet our entry requirements. Our RBS International programme requires a 2:2 degree classification or above, and all other Graduate programmes require you to have, or be on track to achieve a 2:1 or above.

We review on a case-by-case basis and would take into consideration any exceptional circumstances. If you don’t meet the requirements, we can revoke your offer.

No – you won’t be able to join the programme unless it’s for our RBS International programme, where you need at least a 2.2.

We’ll map you into placements based on your development needs – we want you to be well rounded at the end of your programme so we’ll map you into roles that’ll build your professional development.

You’ll complete the Graduate programme in the same location as your Internship.

No, you don’t need to have any experience. We’re looking for your knowledge about us and your passion for the programme. For our NatWest Markets programmes you will be asked to upload a CV and cover letter as one document.

We’re committed to working with you to find a role at the end of your programme.

Once you’ve found your ideal Internship programme, click the apply button to go to our Workday page. If you have an account with us already then you can log in, but if you don’t, you’ll need to create one.

We’ll ask you to answer a few questions to make sure you meet our criteria. It’s simple and quick.

Once you’ve submitted your application, you’ll be taken straight to your online assessment. You don’t have to start it straight away; if you want to come back to it you can. You’ll be able to come back to the assessments for up to 10 days after you submitted your application. You can access them through the link found in your Workday account.

Your first assessment will be work scenarios. This gives you an opportunity to find out more about the job and working at NatWest and helps us to understand a bit more about you. You’ll be given some work-related scenarios along with some statements about how you could respond. You’ll need to decide whether the statement is more or less effective in that scenario. The work scenarios assessment is untimed but may take around 20-25 minutes to complete.

If you’re successful in work scenarios, the next stage is the reasoning skills assessment. This is an interactive assessment where you’ll apply your problem solving, numerical and reasoning skills. Reasoning skills is a timed assessment and you’ll have 36 minutes to answer the questions.

You’ll see more information once you launch the assessment and you’ll get guidance and support along the way. What’s great about completing these assessments is that, regardless of the outcome, you’ll be sent a personalised feedback report to help with your development, regardless of where your career takes you.

Familiarising yourself, including taking practice tests can be really helpful to prepare and feel more confident, giving yourself the best opportunity to demonstrate your potential.

On our careers site we’ve provided detailed information about each assessment, as well as links to example questions which will allow you to experience what it’s like to take the assessment.

You’ll also have the opportunity see some practice questions at the start of each assessment, this will help you get a feel for the type of assessment you’ll be taking.

If you’ve successfully passed these initial assessments, it’s your opportunity to tell us more about you. This stage is a chance for us to get to know you better, and for you to share your motivation for joining NatWest Group, and why this job’s right for you.

You’ll be asked to record your responses to six questions using a videoed recording. There won’t be anyone on the other side of the camera so you can record your responses in your own time.

For some questions we’ll ask you to give us an example of how you’ve dealt with a particular scenario and for others, we’ll provide you with a hypothetical scenario and ask you to tell us about how you’d respond.

This stage should take around 20 minutes to complete.

Every one of our jobs is assessed against our Critical People Capabilities, which are the skills and behaviours important to help us succeed. Let’s break them down so you know what to aim for:

• Connected: To be inclusive, we need to be connected – communicating and collaborating with others, valuing the differences we all bring and delivering great things for our communities.
• Improver innovator: To be curious, we need to be improver innovators – generating ideas, continuously improving and reusing the best of what we have across the bank.
• Critical thinker: To be robust, we need to be critical thinkers – using data and information to make informed decisions, solve problems and keep ourselves and others safe and secure.
• Trusted advisor: To be sustainable, we need to be trusted advisors – using our expertise to make sure we build strong relationships, do the right thing and be considerate to others.
• Change ready: To be ambitious, we need to be change ready – delivering personal and organisational growth, continuously learning, and focussing on our resilience and wellbeing.

If you’re successful in the More About You stage, we’ll consider you for one of our virtual assessment centres, where you’ll complete a number of interactive activities. We receive a lot of applications, so there may be a little wait before we come back to you.

The assessment centre will run virtually using digital platforms such as Zoom. The activities have been designed to explore how you work on your own and collaboratively with others. This gives you lots of chances to show us what you can do, and gives us a rounded view of your skills and behaviours against our Critical People Capabilities.

Here at NatWest Group we want to champion your potential by enabling you to show your best self. If you have a disability, health or mental health condition, or if you’re neurodivergent and adjustments would support you in your assessment, there’ll be opportunities to let us know throughout your application journey.

We’ll have a confidential discussion and work with you to put in place any physical or non-physical adjustments you may need. Any information you share with us will only be used to make adjustments for your assessment and we won’t share this information with anyone else.

You’ll hear the outcome of your assessment centre within one week. If you’re successful, a member of our team will contact you to take you through your offer for the programme.

Applications for our programmes will remain open until we receive enough applications to complete our hiring. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new applications. Very occasionally we may open a role for a short time to new applications if things change. It’s important to take your time to make sure you’re making the right decision about the programme you want to apply for (you can only apply for one programme in one location), but please complete your application as soon as you can to make sure you don’t miss out.

You need to be in your penultimate year of study to be eligible for our internships (that includes finalists who’re going on to do a master’s next year or students in the first year of a two year masters).

Yes, you can apply to our Internship if you’re going straight on to your master’s degree after your undergraduate degree. To be eligible you must graduate from your master’s in 2025.

No, our Internship programmes are only open to penultimate year students.

No, unfortunately we no longer accept deferred applications.

We’re unable to provide sponsorship for our Internship programmes. You must have the right to work in the UK to join our undergraduate programmes.

You’re eligible to apply to the Internship programme if you hold a valid Tier 4 Student Visa, and our dates must coincide with your university summer vacation.

If you’re not sure on your right to work in the UK, or if you need more information, please visit the UK Government Visas and Immigration website.