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Isio is a leading independent UK provider of actuarial consulting, pensions administration, investment advisory, employee benefits and wealth management services.
Isio provides full-service pensions consultancy from actuarial expertise through to investment advice and third-party administration. In addition Isio advise clients on providing the best possible reward and benefits packages for members. We are at a time of growth that will inevitably broaden our offering, which makes Isio an exciting place to start or continue a career.
As a People First business, we want to make sure that our employee’s are supported to reach their goals, whatever they may be, by creating an environment here you can succeed; making the most of existing skills and developing new ones.
Industry: Consulting
Department: Investment
Job Title: Investment Consultant
Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Investment
Job Title: Investment consultant
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Nice people, training opportunities, nice socials, interesting job
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Investment Advisory
Job Title: Graduate Trainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
I really enjoy the teams I work with and the amount of responsibility I have within my teams. I produce a first copy of reports that is reviewed and this allows me to develop my written communication skills and commercial awareness. I also really enjoy the social aspect of work and the number of socials we have.
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Industry: Consulting
Department: Actuarial
Job Title: Graduate Actuarial Trainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Supportive team, wide range of work
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Industry: Consulting
Department: Actuarial & Consulting
Job Title: Graduate Trainee
Industry: Consulting
Department: pensions
Job Title: Actuarial trainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Culture:
The people are all amazing! very friendly, approachable and eager to answer any questions at any given moment!
Variety of work:
you get to work on different clients with different people from your office and different offices as well. you get to be involved in different projects which helps you develop your technical knowledge and understanding.
Study allowance
there is a study policy which states how many study days you get per exam.
they cover your material and 1st exam sitting fee as well as the iFoA membership.
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Transitions/Investment
Job Title: Transitions manager
Industry: Consulting
Department: Actuarial and Consulting
Job Title: GraduateTrainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Good people, different work all the time so it is exciting, can work in any other Isio branches across UK if travelling for something
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Investment
Job Title: Investment Consultant
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Challenging but you learn as you go, develops knowledge and get to use a lot of skills you may already have whilst learning new ones (eg modelling portfolios)
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Industry: Consulting
Department: Investment
Job Title: Investment Advisor
What are the best and worst things about your job?
fair delegation of responsibility
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Industry: Accountancy & Insurance
Department: Actuarial and consultancy
Job Title: Actuarial Trainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Colleagues are really helpful when starting out and always happy to help with questions.
Seems very easy going; it isn't intimidating and everyone is happy to chat even if they are higher up in the company.
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Actuarial and Consulting
Job Title: Assistant Manager
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Work with a great group of people everyday, there is a lot of variety in the work and always opportunities to take on new challenges and responsibilities.
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Actuarial & Consultancy
Job Title: Assistant Consultant
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Freedom to manage your workload and get involved in an array of projects.
If you want to get involved in a particular piece of work and there is an opportunity the firm will allow you.
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Pensions Investment
Job Title: Investment Analyst
What are the best and worst things about your job?
The people
The challenging and dynamic nature of the work
Communal office culture
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Pensions Actuarial
Job Title: Trainee actuary
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Opportunities to work on different projects and learn new things, the working environment is flexible and the company cares about your needs.
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Industry: Consulting
Department: Actuarial and Consulting
Job Title: Actuarial Analyst
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Lots of different workstream you can get involved in. No one day is the same. Lots of great socials and company wide events.
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Actuarial & Consultancy - Pensions
Job Title: Graduate Trainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Working in a team, everyone is helpful, you aren't competing with one another and everyone wants you to succeed.
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Industry: Accountancy & Insurance
Department: Actuarial
Job Title: Actuarial Trainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Variability of each day - the work never gets boring
The people I work with
Interesting work
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Industry: Transport, Logistics and Distribution
Department: Finance
Job Title: Graduate Trainee Accountant
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Company Culture.
Workplace environment.
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Industry: Consulting
Department: Actuarial and Consulting
Job Title: Actuarial Trainee
What are the best and worst things about your job?
Get to use my degree and solve problems.
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Investment Consulting
Job Title: Trainee Investment Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Department: Actuarial and Consulting
Job Title: Graduate Trainee Actuary
What are the best and worst things about your job?
The work is challenging and keeps you interested. There is a lot too learn so it never feels like your a stagnant.
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Department: Investment Consulting
What are the best and worst things about your job?
The best thing about my job is the culture and people that I work alongside every day. Isio has a inclusive and encouraging working environment that has supported me through challenging work periods, exams and personal problems that could of impacted my work. It's also appreciative of the importance of flexible working which helps achieve a better work/life balance.
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Industry: Banking and Finance
Department: Investment
What are the best and worst things about your job?
The learning and training available as well as the colleagues that are really friendly and patient
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Industry: Consulting
Department: Admin
What are the best and worst things about your job?
the flexibility of it.
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Interview Advice:
Be honest, don't try and second guess what the interviewer wants to hear. The interviewers are normal people so just be yourself. There's no sense in lying and finding out further down the line that it isn't the right fit (that works both ways).
Investment Consultant, Investment at ISIO
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Application Advice:
I did not do the Isio application process.
Interview Advice:
I did not complete an interview at Isio.
Graduate Trainee, Investment Advisory at ISIO
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Application Advice:
1. Make sure that your CV is up to date indicating some of the things you have done under each position that you had - for example:
worked at a teaching assistant:
- developed my leadership skills by working closely with other teaching assistants to share tasks (this shows teamwork skills)
if you dont have any paid experience you can use volunteering experience.
2. Be truthful about your self and experiences
Interview Advice:
Use STAR technique to answer any questions the interviewer might ask :
for example :
Situation : when I was at uni of leicester during my masters degree
Task: I had to work with team to create ...
Action : as part of the team I decided to create a list of actions (this shows organisation skills)
Result: as a result we managed to get a high mark for that module.
Actuarial trainee, pensions at ISIO
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Application Advice:
Spend time researching the company and questions before you start applications
Interview Advice:
Be yourself, if you don't know something in the interview be curious and ask for them to explain more about it rather than trying to make up things you don't know
Lots of situation questions like tell me a time you did the right thing when there was pressure to stand by etc
GraduateTrainee, Actuarial and Consulting at ISIO
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Application Advice:
Ensure CV reads well and showcases key skills which demonstrate why you are the ideal candidate for the job role
Interview Advice:
Be relaxed and prepared with examples to showcase necessary skills.
Investment Consultant, Investment at ISIO
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Application Advice:
SPAG checks and customise the CV to the role and company
Interview Advice:
Research the company prior to the interview; have prompts that helps answer common questions but don't read off a pre-written answer. Always try using STAR method.
Investment Advisor, Investment at Isio
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Application Advice:
Don't be afraid to show what hobbies or interests you have as it is a useful to talk about at the interview and shows personality.
Interview Advice:
Think about what you want to do and ask questions on what work you would like to get involved in. Be knowledgeable on the industry and what professional qualifications and study/exam requirements are there.
Think it more of a chat and make sure you show your personality and how you can fit in to the team; show your communication and interpersonal skills.
Actuarial Trainee, Actuarial and consultancy at Isio
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Application Advice:
Research into the role and the company to see what areas of work might interest you. Make sure you know about any further qualification that the programme provides.
Interview Advice:
Have a few questions prepared to ask the interviewer at the end.
Assistant Manager, Actuarial and Consulting at Isio
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Application Advice:
Be yourself. Don't write what you think employers want you to write, put down what you actually believe and what you are actually about.
Qualifications aren't everything.
Interview Advice:
Once again be yourself and try to remain calm.
The toughest question i found where related to competencies. Where have you shown good leadership etc.. Prepare mock answers to these that you can mould to the actual questions asked.
Assistant Consultant, Actuarial & Consultancy at Isio
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Application Advice:
Dynamic CV, related skills
Interview Advice:
Interest in long-term career with Isio
Knowledge of pensions
Be yourself - don't be afraid to state your values and what you expect!
Competency based questions
Link experience to skills required
Investment Analyst, Pensions Investment at Isio
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Application Advice:
Try to stay relaxed during the online tests and work quickly. Be honest in all stages or it will most likely catch up with you. When applying for a graduate role, companies don't necessarily expect you to know everything but as long as it you have a willingness to learnt that's what they look for.
Interview Advice:
Definitely do your research before the interview. Make sure to prepare answers regarding to why you want to work in that industry and company, giving examples of times you work within a team, a time you failed at something, overcame something difficult. Have some technical knowledge of the pensions industry and know what's going on in the world.
Trainee actuary, Pensions Actuarial at Isio
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Application Advice:
Be true to yourself, Be open and confident on the assessment centre, show good interpersonal skills.
Interview Advice:
Technical questions on pensions, Why I wanted this role, particular experiences on CV.
I think what really helped my interview was that I asked good questions back to my interviewers.
Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial and Consulting at Isio
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Application Advice:
Make sure this is not just 'another job you apply for after university'
You need to know what the job is and why you want to do it. Spend time researching pensions actuarial work and what skills from uni you can apply
Interview Advice:
Why this job and this company?
Know everything about the exams we take
How can what you've learnt in uni apply to this role
Working in a team
Graduate Trainee, Actuarial & Consultancy – Pensions at Isio
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Application Advice:
Research the company and the role in depth and make sure you understand the role you're applying for fully.
Interview Advice:
- Have strong examples of where you have demonstrated the company key values in other areas of your life.
- As hard as it is, really try to control your nerves and treat the interview as a conversation - as much as they want to check you're the right fit for them, you also want to make sure they're the right fit for you!
Actuarial Trainee, Actuarial at Isio
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Application Advice:
Make sure you have examples to back any soft-skills you mention in your application (i.e. leading a committee at university helped you develop your organisation skills).
Interview Advice:
Research more on the pensions industry before the interview, as they will ask you what specifically has attracted you to this role (i.e. the LDI crisis, GMP etc.)
Actuarial Trainee, Actuarial and Consulting at Isio
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Application Advice:
Demonstrate interest in actuarial work
Interview Advice:
Be friendly and genuine.
Graduate Trainee Actuary, Actuarial and Consulting at Isio
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Investment Consulting apprenticeship, Investment Consulting at Isio
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Operations Specialist level 4, Investment at Isio
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Pensions administrator, Admin at Isio
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Best:
Nice people, good training opportunities, interesting work,
Worst:
not environmentally friendly (nothing above normal these days), making rich people getting richer,
Investment consultant, Investment at ISIO
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Best:
As a new company, Isio are very flexible and I can get involved in a lot of areas of work. The social side is also really good and everyone is mindful of work/study/life balance. I also like the open culture we have around targets, and budgets.
Worst:
Not having a clear understanding of promotional procedures and requirements is difficult and a stickling point in the office.
Graduate Trainee, Investment Advisory at ISIO
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Best:
Good range of benefits, supportive team, wide range of work
Graduate Actuarial Trainee, Actuarial at ISIO
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Best:
Culture
Trainings
people willing to help you progress
Worst:
salary doesn't represent your work
your work is not appreciated and other more senior people get the credits
Actuarial trainee, pensions at ISIO
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Best:
Variety of work
Multiple offices to work in
Flexi time - can make up time to 35 over week eg if have an appointment or running late
Worst:
Can be stressful around financial year end
Hard to get support when more experienced colleagues all busy
GraduateTrainee, Actuarial and Consulting at ISIO
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Best:
Good environment, welcoming and supportive
Worst:
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Investment Consultant, Investment at ISIO
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Best:
The team is very engaging and everyone is motivated and supportive. Work life balance is respected with regular catch-ups within the team to help manage everyone's workflow. No one is expected to work all the time and the dynamic of the company is very accepting of differences.
Worst:
N/A
Investment Advisor, Investment at Isio
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Best:
Career progression. Great values and team!!
They clearly care about your progression and training.
Very good study policy and flexible in working hours if needed.
Actuarial Trainee, Actuarial and consultancy at Isio
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Best:
Flexibility to choose what line of work you want to be involved in.
Assistant Consultant, Actuarial & Consultancy at Isio
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Best:
Inclusivity and friendliness
Sophisticated ways of working - you learn a lot
Worst:
One on one training and work support (this is only the case because of employee capacity)
Investment Analyst, Pensions Investment at Isio
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Best:
It is clear the company care about their employees and want the best for everyone.
Worst:
The training could be improved but it's not necessarily bad
Trainee actuary, Pensions Actuarial at Isio
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Best:
Innovative
Fresh in the market
Fastest growing consultancy
Great learning and training opportunities
Worst:
Potential inefficiencies that may take a while to improve on.
Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial and Consulting at Isio
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Best:
Inclusivity and diversity
Graduate Trainee, Actuarial & Consultancy – Pensions at Isio
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Best:
They provide lots of training
Very supportive of my work
Encourage me
Provide lots of opportunities
Worst:
Large employers make it harder to stand out
Actuarial Trainee, Actuarial at Isio
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Best:
The culture - everyone is really friendly and makes an effort to get to know you.
People also take the time to listen to my ideas and they sometime get implemented company-wide too!
I also am given a chance to try anything that I'm interested in pursuing while at work, rather than being restricted to just pension accounting, or just technical work.
Worst:
The work-life balance isn't as bad as being an investment banker, but you are expected to work late during busy times.
Actuarial Trainee, Actuarial and Consulting at Isio
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Best:
Genuine and authentic people. Can comfortably be yourself in the workplace.
Graduate Trainee Actuary, Actuarial and Consulting at Isio
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Investment Consulting apprenticeship, Investment Consulting at Isio
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Operations Specialist level 4, Investment at Isio
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Pensions administrator, Admin at Isio
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