Markel

Markel runs four early-career tracks across its US and international early-careers pages:

• US summer internship: paid, 12 full-time weeks (roughly May to August), one functional area per intern (accounting and finance, claims, HR, IT, marketing, operations, sales, or underwriting), with a dedicated mentor buddy and two formal performance reviews.
• US underwriting training program: post-graduate, combining in-person training across US locations with on-the-job training and one-on-one mentorship through the first 12 months.
• International graduate programmes: permanent from day one, with rotations or secondments, running in the UK (Leeds and London), Europe (Munich), and Asia-Pacific.
• UK apprenticeship and industrial placement/internship: a non-university entry route plus a yearlong placement or eight-week paid summer internship, both based in London.

Four different entry points, each with its own eligibility bar, mean the US internship and the UK apprenticeship are not interchangeable: one requires current university enrollment, the other explicitly does not.

Markel is a Fortune 500 company running early-career cohorts in three regions within the same cycle: the UK (Leeds and London, starting September 2026), Europe (Munich, starting October 2026), and Asia-Pacific (starting August 2026). Its international graduate and apprenticeship roles are permanent from day one rather than a fixed-term rotational contract, and its US summer internship pairs a single functional-area placement with a named mentor buddy, two formal performance reviews, and a lunch with members of the executive team. Three regional cohorts starting within a ten-week window means a candidate eligible for more than one geography is running parallel applications against different regional deadlines rather than a single decision.

Yes. Markel has 3 student and graduate roles open right now, in graduate jobs.

Markel opened 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.

Markel has student and graduate roles open in London, New York and Singapore.

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