Franklin Templeton

Franklin Templeton runs its recruitment process in four stages: an online application via the firm's careers portal, a screening conversation with a Talent Acquisition partner, a business interview with the hiring manager and team members (virtual or in person, with an additional assessment for some roles), and an offer. The interview itself focuses on prior experience and uses STAR-style behavioural questions (Situation, Task, Action, Result). The firm states a standard process runs a few weeks. Most early-career hiring sits inside structured autumn campus windows, so candidates typically move through this loop while interview rounds at other asset managers run concurrently — assessment-day conflicts are the practical scheduling problem.

Franklin Templeton runs four distinct early-careers programs, each tied to specific geographies and student years:

• Summer Internship Program — 8 to 12 weeks; rising college juniors and seniors in the US and Canada, penultimate-year students in the UK on a 10-week placement, and students of any year in Singapore and Hong Kong.
• Futures Program — a two-year rotational graduate scheme with six four-month rotations, offered in the US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai.
• Graduate Trainee Program — a one-year postgraduate program in India, recruited through partner Hyderabad universities.
• India and Poland internships — 2-to-6-month rolling placements in India and a six-month 25-to-30-hour-per-week paid internship in Poland, open year-round.

Because the summer internship feeds the Futures Program — the firm states previous interns are considered as part of the Futures candidate pipeline — applying as a penultimate-year intern is the realistic entry route to the graduate scheme rather than a separate later application.

Franklin Templeton recruits its summer and graduate cohorts on geography-specific windows rather than a single global deadline:

• United States and Canada: summer-intern recruiting begins in the fall of the previous year, mostly through partner universities and early-career organisations.
• United Kingdom: summer-intern recruiting opens in autumn, with applications from September and offers issued January to February per the Future Asset profile.
• Singapore and Hong Kong: summer-intern recruiting runs March to April.
• India Graduate Trainee Program: recruits in October and November on partner Hyderabad campuses.
• Futures Program: hiring runs September through December, with exact timing varying by office.

The US-and-UK windows overlap with most other large asset managers' fall campus drives, so a candidate targeting both markets is preparing several applications against the same autumn cluster; the APAC March-April window sits on its own and can absorb attention only after the autumn applications close.

Two things separate Franklin Templeton's early-career offer:

• The Futures Program is a two-year rotational graduate scheme, with associates rotating across US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai offices and feeding into both investment and distribution functions.
• Its rotational structure runs across six four-month rotations covering areas such as equities, fixed income, multi-asset, portfolio management, product, sales and marketing in a single program, rather than selecting a function at application.

For a candidate undecided between an investment seat and a client-facing one, the function choice is deferred to the end of year two rather than made on the application — a smaller upfront commitment than at firms where graduates select their division on the offer letter.

Yes. Franklin Templeton currently has 3 open internship and graduate roles on Jorb AI: summer internships, insight programs, graduate schemes, and early-career positions across the United Kingdom. Postings update continuously as new roles are added and filled.

Franklin Templeton has open internship and graduate roles in the United Kingdom. Specific offices and program structure (summer vs year-round, internship vs graduate scheme) vary by region; check individual postings for details.

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