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Ericsson Early Career Program

Early Career Program

Welcome to the Ericsson Early Career Program (ECP)

Our Early Career Program (ECP) is designed to bring out the best in you and help you achieve your Imagine Possible. The 18-month global programs are intended for recent graduates or professionals early in their career, encouraging and empowering the leaders in them.

Meet some of our brightest who have been Early Career Program alumni

Chafic Nassif, Head of Market Area North East Asia

Cecilia Atterwall, Head of Marketing

These two Early Career Program's – Innovate and Excellerate – open up a world of potential career growth for you, across Ericsson globally. We have numerous opportunities for people who want to make a difference with us. You may choose from a wide range of technology-driven roles or go in for a broader commercial role. The program also gives you a taste of high-profile job rotations within and across functions in an accelerated learning environment, including senior leadership contact, professional on-the-job development and formal trainings. All of it designed to help you be the one who makes the unimaginable possible.

So, if you are looking for an extra boost that will help you leverage challenging opportunities at just the right time, create the desired impact, and fast-track your career on a global stage, Early Career Program is what you need.

Design your own career path, explore your potential, and join us to shape the future!

18 months of accelerated learning: Functional deep dives, mentorship from experts and access to global alumni network.

18 months of accelerated learning: Functional deep dives, mentorship from experts and access to global alumni network.

What can you expect from us?

  • An all-round professional experience, addressing your ambition, passion and strengths
  • Three functional and cross-functional rotations including an international assignment (six months each), with special emphasis on Ericsson’s established and emerging markets to strengthen your business and commercial acumen
  • Personal development with a focus on leadership and functional area deep dives, including mentoring from experienced senior leaders, occasional exposure to top-management
  • Strategic and cross-functional projects in global and virtual teams
  • Structured training in a multi-cultural setting and a network of colleagues and Early Career Program alumni globally

And finally and just as importantly, a lot of fun!

What are we looking for?

Early Career Program is designed to help our colleagues move into a global leadership role, so we’re looking for applicants who are:

  • Genuinely ambitious, curious and possess high learning agility
  • Confident and capable of influencing, challenging and leading within a cutting-edge business
  • On the curve to a global career with an open mind about mobility, as and when required

For specific requirements, explore more under Innovate and Excellerate tracks below.

Innovate Graduate Technology Program

Innovate focuses on leveraging our technology leadership and is best suited for talented, innovative, and creative minds.

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Excellerate Global Leadership Program

Excellerate gives you an outstanding opportunity to engage with commercial projects at a strategic and global level, rising up to challenges and becoming a leader.

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Want to apply?

Applications for 2025 intake is now open.

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Recognition

The Trainee Award for Sweden's most popular trainee program in 2024 went to Ericsson, followed by second place in the past couple of years.

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