Nokia

For student positions in North America, Nokia describes a three-step Student Recruitment Process: an online application, a single 30-minute virtual interview with employees or the hiring manager from the team (with a basic technical test for technical roles), then the offer decision. For non-student roles, Nokia's general recruitment process is longer — CV pre-screening, an optional Nokia Talent Discovery assessment for some roles, then a 60–90 minute interview with the possibility of a second round. Compared with the multi-round assessment centres typical of finance and consulting, the student loop is short, so a candidate can realistically run several Nokia applications in parallel without each one consuming weeks of preparation.

Nokia runs distinct early-career tracks rather than a single named program; in North America the firm names:

• Summer internship — 10 weeks, project-focused, students from across North America
• Co-op program — flexible duration, designed to combine study with work-term placements
• Full-time new grad roles — posted as openings arise, with offers extended up to one year before graduation
• Future Tech Summer Internship — an 8-week program for Canadian high-school students, mentored by Nokia engineering teams
• Bell Labs internships — research placements at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, with publication opportunities at major conferences

The tracks are not interchangeable: a Bell Labs placement weights toward publishable industrial research, while a co-op term is a structured rotation through a network-engineering team. Picking the wrong track because the names sound similar means writing an application that does not match the work being offered.

Nokia does not run a single fixed application window. Per its Student Recruitment Process and FAQ:

• Three student hiring cycles per year, with work terms starting in January, May, and September
• Postings open 4–6 months ahead of the start date — roughly September, January, and May for the following cycle
• No fixed application deadline for student roles; positions are filled on a rolling basis as suitable candidates apply
• New grad full-time roles are posted as openings arise, with no annual cycle, and offers can be extended up to one year before a candidate's graduation date

A rolling, posting-by-posting model means the earliest qualified applicants are often well into an interview before a slower applicant has submitted, so checking the Nokia job portal on a regular cadence is how candidates avoid being late to a role that has effectively closed.

Three features show up consistently on the firm's student and Bell Labs pages:

• A direct path into Nokia Bell Labs, the research lab whose alumni Nokia itself names — Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt both began their careers there as interns
• Three student intake terms per year (January, May, September) rather than the single-autumn cycle typical of finance and consulting graduate recruiting
• A weighting toward engineering placements across the full carrier-network stack — fixed, mobile, and transport — rather than software-only roles

For an applicant choosing where to spend an internship, the deciding question is usually fit between these: a Bell Labs research placement weights toward publishable industrial research, while a country co-op weights toward shipping production network software with a customer-engineering team.

Yes. Nokia currently has 1 open internship or graduate role 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.

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