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Your first role should open the right door.
Antony George and the Verve Foundation are creating a clearer route into financial services. Explore entry-level opportunities with firms actively looking for people at the beginning of their careers.
You should not need experience to get experience.
The hardest part of starting in financial services is often getting that first opportunity. Careers in Finance is designed to make that first connection clearer.
Find firms already open to early-career talent.
Focus your search on genuine entry-level opportunities rather than roles that quietly expect an established track record.
Create a profile that says more than a short CV can.
Give employers a clearer picture of what you are looking for and why you want to build a career in the sector.
Make yourself visible to employers.
A completed profile can help firms discover you while they browse the candidate pool.
The platform is free for candidates and built specifically around the move into financial services.
build your profile. browse roles. get seen.
The candidate route is simple: create a profile, explore entry-level opportunities and make yourself visible to firms looking for people at the start of their careers.
Client Support Assistant
Entry-level opportunity with a financial planning firm.
Junior Administrator
Start building practical experience inside an advice business.
Trainee Support Role
A first step into the financial-services profession.
Example roles are illustrative and do not represent current vacancies.
Create your profileThe platform is wider than the New Talent programme.
You can create a Careers in Finance profile whether you have come through Verve's New Talent programme or found the platform independently. The important thing is that you are looking to begin a career in financial services.
Four questions worth asking about your first role.
The best early-career opportunity is not always the one with the most impressive title. These four questions help you look at what the role can actually give you.
What will I actually learn?
Look for responsibilities and exposure that build useful knowledge rather than leaving you watching from the side-lines.
Who will I learn from?
The people around you can matter as much as the job description when you are building your first professional habits.
Will I be trusted with real work?
A good first role should give you a genuine contribution to make, with the right level of support around you.
What could this lead to?
You do not need the whole career mapped out, but you should be able to see how the experience could open the next door.
That is usually more valuable than choosing on title alone.
Your first step sits inside something bigger.
Careers in Finance is part of the Verve Foundation, which has spent years helping people enter the profession, pass qualifications and build confidence around a career in financial services.
You do not need the whole career figured out. You just need a place to start.
Create your profile, explore entry-level opportunities and take the first practical step towards a career in financial services.