Supporting your career

Banking and finance is an exciting sector because it's always changing and evolving. That means, as a professional in financial services, you'll always need to adapt and update your skills and knowledge.

When you graduate you’ll become an Associate Member of LIBF, which comes with benefits and services to help you progress. As one of our alumni, you’ll also be eligible to apply for Chartered Associateship – a professional designation of distinction.

To acquire Chartered Associateship as one of our alumni, you’ll need to:

• have at least three years’ experience in the sector
• have committed to our ethics and values, and
• maintain your knowledge and skills through continuing professional development (CPD).

Personalised careers support

After you graduate, you’ll also have access to our Careers and Employability Centre for three years.

As well as one-to-one career coaching, job opportunities and access to our network, we offer our graduates career management guidance.

This can be about anything – from critical career decisions, mental preparation for a big presentation or managing situations and challenges at work. Or it may be that you just need to talk.

Our team are available to talk you through the issues you may encounter as you begin your career. We’re all qualified and experienced coaches and can advise on tools and strategies that you might find useful.

Supporting current students

Donate to our Alumni Fund

Launched in 2010, our Alumni Fund helps talented students with the cost of studying a full-time degree with us. Since then, it’s been enabling more people to enjoy careers in banking and finance and helping to diversify the sector at the same time.

The increasing cost of higher education can deter talented young people from further study when they leave school. That means many people miss out on the opportunity to realise their full potential and the industry suffers as a result.

If you’d like to help diversify the sector, you can donate to the Alumni Fund online or by downloading and completing our donation form to post.

"Being awarded the scholarship was a huge benefit and achievement for me. I feel it was a reflection of my hard work and it gave me the confidence to move to London to continue my studies."

Angharad Thomas, BSc (Hons) Finance, Investment and Risk