• The company runs recurring early-career routes across multiple countries, including 10 to 12-week summer internships (North America), UK summer internships and industrial placements, and apprenticeships tied to earning qualifications while working.
• Zurich Insurance offers structured “new grad” style programs beyond internships, including Foundational Training Programs (Actuarial, Claims, Finance, Risk Engineering, Underwriting) and country graduate schemes that commonly last two to three years depending on track.
• The company also runs tech-focused early-career access through the NextGen Tech Internship Program, described as a 1-year internship for up to 50 university students in Zurich Capability Centers.

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• The company publishes an interview and hiring process outline that sets expectations for next steps like phone or video interviews and the possibility of assessments, plus email notifications when candidates are not moving forward.
• Zurich Insurance’s UK graduate materials describe staged assessment steps (online assessment, job simulation, video interview, and a final assessment), which is unusually helpful for first-time applicants preparing for insurers.
• The company has mixed candidate-reported experience signals on timing and follow-up, suggesting the process can feel predictable in some teams and slow or uneven in others.

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• The company builds explicit support into several early-career pathways, including UK graduate scheme structures that reference regular line-manager time plus a “buddy” who has previously been through the scheme.
• Zurich Insurance’s underwriting and internship pathways emphasize structured learning, including training programs aimed at certifications and advancement and internship programming that includes workshops, mentoring, and senior-leader engagement.
• The company’s multi-rotation early-career options, such as the Benelux traineeship described as four rotation periods over about 20 months with mentoring and coaching, give juniors a safer way to explore functions without job-hopping.

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• The company posts pay ranges for at least some early-career roles on the Zurich careers site, including an underwriting trainee role advertised with a set base salary figure and short-term incentive eligibility.
• Zurich Insurance includes paid benefits for interns in some regions, such as paid time off and 401(k) contributions in the North America internship program, which is a stronger package than “paid internship” alone.
• The company’s pay transparency is not consistent across geographies and early-career tracks, so candidates outside the most transparent markets often have to rely on external benchmarks or late-stage recruiter conversations.

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• The company links early-career programs to tangible next steps, including UK internship messaging that placements “could lead to” a graduate programme place and North America campus messaging that emphasizes transitioning interns into full-time roles.
• Zurich Insurance has mixed public sentiment on career progression, with review themes that include strong training and internal opportunity alongside criticism that advancement can feel slow or dependent on the team and manager.
• The company does not publish consistent early-career outcomes like intern-to-offer rates, early-tenure retention, or typical promotion timelines by track and country, which limits confidence on how reliably juniors progress after the program period.

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