Work experience/internships

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About us
Standard Life is a major asset-managing company headquartered in Edinburgh and operating across the globe. Established in 1825, Standard Life provides pensions, investment management, banking and healthcare insurance products to over 6.5 million customers worldwide.

As a graduate it's important to forge a career with a company that's a leader in its industry, has a sound reputation and great track record. But it's equally important that you choose a career with a company that genuinely cares about its people, its community and its social responsibility. Standard Life can offer you all of this combined with interesting and varied placement roles.

Why Standard Life?
We want you to be able to build a career here so we offer a wide variety of programmes and internships. That’s why we’re looking for a range of different talents and skills in our applicants. However, the recruitment process is definitely not a one-way street. While we want to find out if you’re right for us, you of course want to find out if we’re right for you.

Perfect balance
Everything we do is designed to capitalise on our people’s strengths. As a Standard Life graduate, this applies to you too. First-hand exposure to a wide range of business areas paired with personal mentoring ensures that our people stay head and shoulders above the crowd.

Our graduate programmes:

accountancy
actuarial
commercial leadership
distribution & client services
human resources
information systems
investment management
investment operations
legal
property management.
Our summer internships
accountancy, actuarial, commercial leadership and human resources

All about you
At Standard Life, we believe in putting you first. We only take a small number onto our graduate programmes, and we take your career just as seriously as you do.

That’s why we have planned, designed, honed and tweaked our programmes to provide you with an unrivalled graduate experience; ensuring you have all the guidance and motivation you need to reach your full potential with us. We expect the best and we offer the same in return.

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Find out more information and why Standard Life is the perfect launch pad for your career.