• The company advertises a high-volume internship pipeline, stating 3,000+ interns each year and outlining placements that can last three months to one year depending on country.
• Airbus runs the Airbus Global Graduate Programme as a structured two-year route for candidates with up to three years’ work experience, with global cohort language and programme-specific roles posted each cycle.
• The company’s UK footprint highlights scale at the country level too, stating 500+ apprentices, graduates and interns hired each year, alongside paid UK apprenticeships and paid UK industry placements.

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• The company publishes a plain-language recruitment flow that includes manual screening by Talent Acquisition, a call or short video interview, then interviews with both Business and Talent Acquisition before an offer.
• Airbus spells out the Airbus Global Graduate Programme funnel with named stages including screening, a game-based assessment (Arctic Shores), and an online assessment centre using group exercises and interviews.
• The company sets integrity expectations around AI use in UK early-careers content, allowing AI for preparation while requiring formal assessment stages to be completed without real-time AI assistance.

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• The company positions the Airbus Global Graduate Programme as accelerated development delivered through challenging placements, workshops, job shadowing, annual residential training, and a “Development Week” linked to the Leadership University.
• Airbus builds structured mentorship and learning access into UK industry placements, explicitly referencing structured mentorship and access to 20,000+ e-learning modules.
• The company describes apprenticeship support as a network around the apprentice, including line manager support and the Early Careers team, with nationally recognised qualifications from Level 3 through to degree-level routes in the UK.

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• The company repeatedly frames key student routes as paid, including UK apprenticeships (“paid UK apprenticeship”) and UK industry placements (“paid UK industry placement”) plus salary-linked apprenticeships globally.
• Airbus promotes a broad rewards package that includes flexible working time, hybrid possibilities, pension contributions, and location-dependent financial benefits such as success sharing and employee share ownership.
• The company does not consistently publish salary ranges on the official early-career programme pages, and even the graduate programme page directs candidates to individual job listings for salary by location, which reduces upfront pay clarity.

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• The company claims long-run retention for apprentices, stating that most apprentices are still working at Airbus five years later, which is a rare outcome signal on an official early-careers page.
• Airbus links UK industry placements to a concrete next step by stating placement experience can be used to join the Airbus Global Graduate Programme after graduation.
• The company has very strong intern sentiment signals on large review platforms, but Airbus does not publish outcome metrics such as internship-to-offer conversion, graduate programme completion rates,

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