UWI students learn of bank careers

The recently staged 2025 UWI Job Fair introduced many students to the variety of career paths available in the banking sector, according to a media release from CIBC Caribbean.

The CIBC Caribbean’s booth at the fair, which carried the theme, Dream it, Achieve it, Do It, attracted many Cave Hill Campus students who learned of the bank’s special career programmes in the areas of corporate and retail banking, as well as technology.

Managers of Talent Acquisition and Development, Kathleen Hall and Stephanie Blackman, who led the employees staffing the booth, said the bank participated in the fair as part of its mission to support young people.

“We are offering not only expertise and knowledge to new students, but our focus as well is to promote the early career programmes within our organization. [It is] not only the summer programme, but we have other programmes for which we are seeking to attract new and upcoming talent,” Hall said.

She said that the UWI Job Fair was an ideal place for meeting new talent while showcasing CIBC Caribbean as an employer of first choice.

Students Ariel Ifill-White and Jiselle Andrews appeared to agree, saying they were satisfied with the usefulness of the information the bank provided.

Some students said they had been unaware of the several career options available at the bank and were happy to gain insight into what it offered.

Hall said the UWI students visiting the booth were not always sure what career they would pursue after graduation, but the bank’s employees at the booth, some of whom had passed through its special programmes, offered them practical advice. She said the bank regularly hired employees after they had participated in these programmes.

Ifill-White and Andrews said the staff had been friendly and given them information on internships, as well as clarified how to access some online banking functions, which would make it easier for them to use the bank’s online features.

(PR)