abrdn

The firm, registered as Aberdeen Group plc and operating consumer-facing as abrdn and Aberdeen Investments, lists three early-career pathways on its careers page: School Leaver Traineeships, Summer Internships and Graduate Programmes, and a Young Person's Guarantee that commits the firm to opportunities for 16- to 24-year-olds in Scotland. The School Leaver Traineeship has no minimum education requirement, is structured as a "learn as you earn" route with an assigned line manager, buddy, and tutor plus access to an online education platform, and is reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. The firm's registered office is 1 George Street, Edinburgh. Because the three routes are keyed to stage of education rather than line of business, the entry point a candidate applies through is fixed by qualification stage, with the team allocation set once inside the programme.

abrdn's application-process page describes a four-stage process: an online CV-based application; online psychometric tests, where the firm directs candidates to Cut-e by Aon practice materials (naming the vendor); a video interview structured to test motivation and understanding of the firm's vision; and a final assessment centre held face-to-face, combining an interview, a business case study, and a group exercise. Each stage is a separate gate, and the final stage is in person rather than virtual. Because the firm's hiring is Edinburgh-anchored and the assessment centre is face-to-face, a candidate who reaches the final round will typically travel to Edinburgh for it, a single-day commitment that is hard to align with a same-week London assessment elsewhere in the asset-management or banking cycle.

The firm is a UK-listed asset and wealth manager headquartered in Edinburgh, with the parent legal entity Aberdeen Group plc and consumer-facing brands abrdn and Aberdeen Investments. Two specific things distinguish it from the bulk of UK asset-management peers:

• Hiring is anchored to Edinburgh rather than London, with the registered office at 1 George Street, so the early-career base of operations is Scottish.
• The firm runs a non-graduate School Leaver Traineeship and a Young Person's Guarantee for 16- to 24-year-olds in Scotland alongside its summer-internship and graduate streams, giving it a wider entry funnel than peers that recruit only graduates.

A candidate weighing abrdn against London-anchored asset managers is therefore choosing both a different city and a different recruiting model, where the firm targets school-leavers and 16- to 24-year-olds as deliberately as it targets penultimate-year undergraduates.

abrdn currently has no open internship or graduate roles listed on Jorb AI. This page updates continuously; check back as new postings rotate.

Applications to abrdn go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. abrdn does not use third-party submission services.