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About the Company
Citi, also known as Citigroup Inc., is a leading global bank with a significant presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. It offers a wide range of financial services, including consumer banking, credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. The company strives to serve as a trusted partner to its clients by providing responsible financial services that enable growth and economic progress.
Company Profile
Year founded: 1812
CEO: Jane Fraser
Employee Number: 239,000
Headquarters: New York City, New York, USA
Core Values: Take Ownership, Deliver with Pride, Succeed Together
Official website: https://www.citigroup.com/global
Student & Graduate Recruitment Process
Stage 1: Online Application
Candidates apply via Citi Bank’s official careers portal and submit their CVs and academic transcripts. The application should highlight relevant experience, skills, and motivation for joining Citi Bank.
Citibank doesn’t require a Cover Letter. Instead, they ask you three questions. Each one has around a 250-300 word limit. The overall application form takes around 30 minutes.
Stage 2: Online Assessment
Citi Bank's online assessment takes around one hour to complete. The assessment is divided into 5 different sections that assess your cognitive reasoning skills, work preference and personality.
You can learn more about this assessment below.
Stage 3: Online Interview
If you are successful in your online assessment, you will be invited to either a pre-recorded video interview or a zoom/telephone interview, depending on the role you applied for.
If you are invited to a video interview, you will watch a short introductory video explaining the details of how the interview is conducted before being asked questions from a pre-recorded clip. There are six pre-recorded questions. For each question, you have to prepare an answer and answer within the given time frame.
If you are invited to a Zoom/telephone interview, you will be asked motivational and behavioural questions.
You can learn more about how to prepare for the interview here.
Stage 4: Assessment Centre
This stage of the application is split into two parts, one group exercise (group presentation) and one 1 to 1 interview. The assessment centre will take around 3-4 hours in total. During the 1 to 1 interview, you will asked questions about your understanding of the financial markets, your motivation to apply for Citi Bank and some behavioural questions.
For the group exercise, you will be provided with a case. You will discuss the case with your group members and do a presentation to an assessor.
Stage 5: Offer and Feedback
Following the assessment centre, candidates receive feedback and are informed about the outcome of their application. You will receive a job offer if you are successful.
How to Prepare for the Online Assessment
Citi Bank's online assessment is provided by Plum, and it consists of five different stages, including a situational judgement test, a personality test, and a problem-solving test, which is divided into two parts. This assessment is not timed.
⌛️ Overall Time Needed to Practice: 4 days
⏰ Overall Time Needed to Complete the Assessment: 60 minutes
Situational Judgement Test (Social Interactions)
The assessment entails reading some scenarios and rating given responses to scenarios as most effective or least effective. There will be 8 questions during the assessment, and those questions will be designed to assess the behaviours required to succeed in day-to-day work at Citi Bank. The assessment is not timed, and it may take 20 minutes to complete this part of the assessment.
In order to successfully pass this part of the assessment, you can practice our Situational Judgement Tests, which include ranking-style questions that help you understand corporate culture and what employers might be looking for.
Problem-Solving Test
This part of the assessment is divided into two separate sections and will last for 10 minutes in total. During this test, you will see some shapes that have some commonality and other shapes that follow the same rule. Overall, logical reasoning assessments are not very difficult. However, practice is essential for success.
In order to pass the logical reasoning assessment, you can simply practice our Logical Reasoning Tests.
Personality Test
This part is also divided into two parts: Priorities and Preferences and "You". During the assessment, you will be presented with different statements and asked to select the ones that are Most and Least likely to describe you.
Although there are no right or wrong answers to the questions, it is important to read about Unilever's culture and values, as the employer will be looking for candidates who closely align with those.
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