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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UK Spring Weeks: Timeline, Assessments, and How Offers Are DecidedWhen applications open, what is actually in the assessment at each bank, and how a week of work experience turns into a summer internship offer.Read the guide — 9 min The US Answer to a Spring Week: Sophomore Insight ProgramsThey exist, they matter as much as a spring week does, and almost everything about the timing is different.Read the guide — 9 min Spring Week vs Summer Internship vs Industrial PlacementWhich early finance programme is which, who each is for, and how they ladder into a full-time offer.Read the guide — 6 min

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