Chaucer Group

Chaucer's graduate and apprenticeship application process runs three stages: an online application, an SHL Talent Central hub stage combining a one-way recorded video interview with a roughly 30-minute online skills assessment (candidates have 10 days to complete both), and a half-day in-person assessment day pairing a seen-presentation exercise and an interview with, for graduate applicants, a cognitive assessment. Chaucer states the online assessment cannot be prepared for, and independent graduate reviews of the assessment day describe it as covering several distinct activities in one sitting, consistent with Chaucer's own account. The SHL stage and the assessment day are each a separate pass gate, so a candidate applying to more than one Chaucer track is committing two distinct blocks of time, a 10-day online window and a half-day in person, before any offer decision.

For the 2026 intake, Chaucer's Graduates & Apprentices page lists two structured entry routes into (re)insurance:

• Graduate Programme: tracks in Actuarial, Risk, Underwriting, Underwriting Portfolio Management, and Financial Accounting in London, plus Actuarial in Dublin and Underwriting in Singapore
• Apprenticeship Programme: tracks in Claims and Underwriting, combining on-the-job rotation with support toward a professional insurance qualification and an assigned in-house mentor

Bright Network's own graduate-jobs listings independently confirm Chaucer runs a distinct Underwriting Graduate Programme in London, one of the seven tracks above. A candidate weighing Chaucer is choosing between five graduate tracks and two apprenticeship tracks, degree-entry versus apprenticeship-entry into overlapping functions, each running its own separate application and assessment cycle.

Chaucer's Syndicate 1084 is the sixth-largest syndicate at Lloyd's of London, underwriting specialty (re)insurance across casualty, energy, marine, political, and property classes. A second syndicate, 1176, specialises in nuclear risk; independent (re)insurance trade press describes it as a member of Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd, the UK's nuclear insurance pool, and it recently developed a dedicated cyber-cover product for nuclear power plants. Chaucer has been part of the China Re Group, one of the world's larger reinsurance groups, since 2018. A graduate or apprentice choosing between Chaucer's tracks is choosing between a broad-line underwriting seat on a top-ten Lloyd's syndicate and a narrow, specialised seat in a niche few insurers underwrite at all.

Yes. Chaucer Group has 1 student and graduate role open right now, in graduate jobs.

Chaucer Group opened its off-cycle internships on 4 Jun 2026 and its graduate jobs on 12 Jun 2026. Dates are when the firm posted each programme, or when we first saw it on the firm's careers site.

Chaucer Group has student and graduate roles open in London.

Applications to Chaucer Group go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.