Hi everyone, due to grad from local uni mid next year, applied for compliance roles in the banks through their normal recruitment windows but got rejected. Would it be best to go through a recruitment agency for a role?

Which area would be advisable for a fresh grad to start in, ie. CDD, AML, KYC etc? Most graduate roles advertised on bank websites do not really break the roles up into these specific "sub-functions", therefore I do not have much advanced knowledge of what these roles entail and how they are in terms of progression.


Also, out of curiosity, are there any banks that should be avoided? From what I gather from this thread, European banks seem to have a better culture - how true is this?