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Candidates are recruited into a specific role at the bank from day one, so the case and final stages are run by the receiving team rather than a central programme office. The loop runs from early November through mid-January for a September start, meaning a candidate is sitting psychometrics and preparing a role-specific case across December exam season – not a process to begin in the final week before the deadline.

SEB publishes a connected set of graduate and student programmes anchored in Sweden, with extensions into the Baltics and other international sites:

• International Trainee Programme – nine months, cohort of up to 20, starts 1 September, runs every other year, majority Sweden-based with a four-week internship at another international SEB site at the end
• Tech Trainee Programme – six months, starts early September, recruits across Sweden and the Baltics, with primary tech hubs in Sweden and Lithuania
• CIB Summer Internship – ten weeks in Stockholm, mid-June to late August, across IB Equity Capital Markets, FICC Sales (incl. derivatives, credit, quant), Legal and other Corporate & Investment Banking teams
• Tech Summer Internship – June to August, on-site in Stockholm throughout
• Investment Banking Internship – ten weeks, two intakes per year, work in Corporate Finance, Corporate Finance Growth, or Debt Financing Solutions
• Sustainable Banking Summer Internship – summer, in the sustainability transformation team
• Thesis Work and Summer and Part-Time Work for shorter student engagements

These tracks do not run on a single shared cycle: the International Trainee intake is biennial, the Investment Banking Internship runs twice a year, and the various summer programmes open between September and late January depending on track. A candidate who misses the International Trainee window typically waits two years for the next cohort rather than the next autumn.

The Tech Trainee Programme recruits across Sweden and the Baltics, with primary tech hubs in Sweden and Lithuania, which is unusual among the Nordic banks – many treat the Baltic pipeline as an in-country local-hire channel rather than a route into Stockholm-anchored programmes. These two structural choices change who fits: the biennial cadence rewards candidates who can plan against a two-year horizon, and the Baltic tech track opens a Nordic-bank graduate route that students at Vilnius or Riga universities will not find at most peers.