“In July and August 2019, I worked as a summer intern in John Swire & Sons (Swire) Summer Internship Programme.

I was seconded to Cathay Pacific Airways, one of the operating companies.

To ensure that I have support every step on the way, Swire provided me with access to coaches and a management trainee buddy who will offer guidance and development feedback throughout the Programme.

Being a GLEF student, I have attended different courses to attain subject-specific skills that enable me to apply economic principles and models.

Moreover, both Faculties have provided resources for students to gain more exposure to the commercial and cultural world through courses of different themes, talks held by external speakers, while training students in job-hunting through workshops and interview practices.

It was a privilege to utilize my analytical skills and knowledge gained from previous courses in GLEF.

“In the 10-week internship, I have rotated between the Analytics and Sales Department. 

At Analytics, we were assigned 5 projects to work on beyond conducting campaign calls to our clients. 

In Sales, we organized the hosted seminar to our senior sell-side client and we also had the opportunities to represent the company to attend client training and meetings.

Bloomberg has one of the best and most structured internship programme, from the first rotation at Analytics to Sales – I have done several projects and some provide me with opportunities to shine and perform. 

Team collaboration is definitely one of the aspects that I have gained and improved the most – as most of the work is done in groups and the company culture would just facilitate all the collaboration and help between everyone.

The HR had organized a lot of events for us, from social and networking events to philanthropy events, we were able to not only understand the Bloomberg culture and value, but also apply through our actions.

Having the Bloomberg Terminal in place in the Finance Lab is already one of the greatest supports from CUHK.

Moreover, being recognized as one of the elite programmes in Hong Kong, this brand recognition has helped me build my credentials and trust both internally and externally at the client place.

The trainings and support from the programme office and the university is also paramount as it built a solid foundation in terms of my technical and understanding about the Terminal.

“Wellington is one of the top asset management firms in the world with more than 1 trillion US dollar asset under management.

I felt that the whole internship was similar to a test of my ability to conduct work as a full time investment associate.

Through this internship, I confirmed that I love this job and I want to pursue a career here.

“I undertook a two-month internship as an Equity Research Intern at JBA Capital, a small-size hedge fund based in Taiwan.

During the two-month internship, I had completed eight equity reports in total.

I feel that during the internship, I was treated like a regular employee in JBA.

The internship enables me to assure my interest towards the equity market and finds lots of aspects that really attract me.

Thanks a lot to JBA, though it is a small company, I gained a lot of practical experience, formed close relationship with the company and be more certain about the future career that I would like to develop.

Majoring in GLEF leads me to learn a great deal about how money works, and about financial instruments, stocks, bonds, markets, how macroeconomics and microeconomics work.

4 years in GLEF has been an exceptional journey beyond my imagination.

One of the most things that I admired is that GLEF does not aim to train students to merely expertise in finance yet upon that, to equip students to have the ability to think logically and critically independently.

“Last summer, I worked in Citibank as a global consumer banking (GCB) summer analyst for 10 weeks.

It kicked off with a 1.5-day orientation with over 100 interns across different divisions.

I joined the customer acquisition team under the Segment department of GCB division.

What was notable was that Citi organized different workshops for interns to interact with senior management teams and also the head of consumer banking, Mr.

I believe an internship is a golden opportunity for students to tap into the real business world to gain first-hand experience of a particular company as well as the nature of the industry.

On the whole, I am very positive towards the GLEF program.

All in all, I believe the support given to students in this program is enough to help students academically and with their future career development.”