In this fireside chat with Georgina Sweeney (Deutsche Bank) and Nichola Robinson (AMS) hosted by Nic Sullivan (Meet & Engage) they will discuss their vision to improve student outcomes, student wellbeing and personal development, engagement and belonging via AMS' Coaching proposition.
Set the context of increasing applications and Deutsche Banks's number of applications rising to 140:1. Impacting on students wellbeing, resilience and ability to do their best in the recruitment process. Their aim is to support candidates with reasonable adjustment to start on day one and Provide students with group and personalised support as they move through the process due to real time sentiment and feedback.
AMS implemented their Candidate Coaching Proposition, a personalised engagement experience designed to support students between the point of application through to offer and onwards to day one in role.
Their proposition supports a number of key dynamics around students trying to get either work experience, an apprenticeship, internship or full time role. It also supports organisations through educating students to be more productive and add value from day one, focus on soft skills to link into the training they will get when they join.
Candidates register for their coaching journey on a virtual platform called Meet & Engage, a social-style portal where they will find content like wall messages, chatbot, videos, polls, infographics, and an automated helpdesk available 24/7. They receive relevant curated content at timely intervals all the way up until their start date with the aim of increasing engagement and readiness to begin their career, including live coaching webinars with very high uptake.
Deutsche Bank have received nearly 140,000 applications globally to date for their early careers 2025 programme and have made just over 1500 offers so far – so that’s over 100,000 individuals who have access to live career coaching with AMS Talent Coaches whether they are successful with an offer at Deutsche Bank or not.
This truly embodies the vision the Bank seeks to realize, making sure that everyone's got the opportunity to have this kind of learning and development as part of their application journey, but also giving them something back so that even if they are rejected, they feel like they've had a good experience, the brand is positive, and most importantly they've learnt something that they can take to other interviews and other applications, hopefully supporting their sense of wellbeing and confidence and motivation as they move forward.