my journey to banking industry and HR

I am really happy to get a chance to work in NYC! My internship was with Bank of Communications. It is a Chinese bank, where the headquarter is in China. Where I was working was right near to Wall Street. When I went to work around 9am and left work around 5pm every day, I always thought if a billionaire just walked next to me. I wanted to ask the billionaire how they become very successful in the world financial center! It was a pity that I did not ask them about those questions. But, I will definitely come back NYC for many other reasons.

As the summer intern, my main project was to create the training program, which was for two groups of leaders(students) from mainland of China and they were coming to USA to acquire some banking training. It was my responsibility to create the training program that will help those leaders to bring something new and different back to China. I was also implementing the training programs with them, which was a mixture of lessons and travelling. Upon completion of a week's training,  4 group leaders will write summaries and reports to a big leader in the class. Upon completion of the whole training, each leader will share his/her USA experience to their colleagues.

The main purpose of this training program is to let the leaders from mainland of China to learn about the financial systems, how to operate properly in US, how to be an international banker and how to comply with the rules about regulatory needs here as well as other human resources related rules and regulations.

My supervisor and some other leaders in New York branch have some connections to different elites in the the business fields. what I did for this training program was to write formal business emails to those elites and ask them to give lectures to our students(leaders).

My first step was to discuss with my supervisor regarding to which company or organization would give us lectures. After my supervisor presented our talk to the general manager of our branch, we revised our plan again. Then I started to write formal business email to invite different elites. This was not an easy task. I initially write a sample email and then fill in the names and titles. However, my supervisor said I need to customize the email to different leaders. After we completed the name lists, we need to make sure that all the lectures were scheduled into consecutive 3 weeks since those students were only in USA for a short period.

To be honest, designing the training program for the business leaders was a challenging task for me. Because I am not a business major and I am not familiar with banking industry. I am glad that I learned some training and development skills last semester to help me design the program. The skills I learned about how to write a lesson plan also helped me to make the training plan.

Besides designing the classes and trainings for leaders from mainland of China, my supervisor, another coordinator from NY branch and I also discussed about how to help them quickly adapt the English language environment and how to make their USA trip unique. I think we were very considerate about their visit because we even discussed about which restaurant to go and which landmark they are going to visit. What we want to do is to let those leaders satisfy their USA business trip.

This is the first page of the training program that my supervisor and I co-designed.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP gave us a lecture on July 9, 2013 and this is the welcome board.

After the lecture with HSBC, I took a picture with this cute wall paint.