Spring Week

A one-week insight programme run in March or April by UK and European banks for first-year students on a three-year degree, or second-years on a four-year course. It is the earliest formal entry point into banking and the primary feeder into Summer Internship offers at most bulge brackets — which is why winning one compresses the recruiting funnel by roughly two years.

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