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Thinking about your next step after graduating?

In 2025, we launched our first-ever graduate programme for ambitious, curious graduates who want to learn fast, build real-world skills, and make an impact across our business.

Our programme is designed for people with an entrepreneurial mindset who are ready to grow, take on responsibility, and shape their future from day one. We can't wait to welcome these trailblazers later this year.

Applications for this intake are now closed, but we’ll be opening applications for our 2027 Graduate Programme later in the year.

Check back here for updates, key dates, and application guidance.

Get to know us better

Our Programme
Your Future

We’re not your typical corporate – and this isn’t your average grad scheme.

We’re building the next generation of leaders to drive and grow our fast-moving businesses in the US, UK and beyond.

Find out more about our programme

We're looking for

  • Curious and fast learners who love a challenge

  • Entrepreneurial thinkers with fresh ideas and the motivation to make them happen

  • Brilliant relationship builders who can create lasting customer connections

  • Collaborative teammates who roll up their sleeves and join in

How it’ll work

You’ll kickstart your career with real job experience in some of our UK and US businesses. You’ll learn, grow and get support through:

Hands-on learning that fast tracks your growth

Two rotations across different businesses with great managers by your side

Focused training to level up your skills

A peer network of graduates in the UK and US to share the journey with

Skills you’ll develop

We’re training you to run our business and for that you need skills like:

Master the sales funnel, pipeline management and market segmentation.

Learn how to win, retain and grow customer relationships while driving satisfaction.

Understand what drives profit and how every function contributes to success.

Build confidence in monitoring, reporting and managing performance.

Improve efficiency, manage inventory, control costs and deliver on time.

Recognise the importance of health, safety and sustainability in business success.

Work brilliantly with others and step up as a leader when the time is right.

What you'll be doing

You could be generating new sales leads in our motorsport sales team at Clarendon Specialty Fasteners in Swindon

You could be helping to make our supply chain more efficient in Hercules Aftermarket – our industry-leading sealing products business in Louisville, Kentucky

You could be leading a project to figure out how AI can help us deliver more for our customers at ISG in Swindon

You could be working at the heart of our operations in Shoal Group, Luton, getting started on your leadership journey

You could be supporting product training for key customers in TIE, Tennessee

You could be driving performance with the Finance Director at VSP Technologies in Virginia.

What you'll need

You’re not here to just take part – you’re here to make a difference.

At Diploma, our people are as unique as our businesses, and that’s our winning formula.

You’ll graduate with a degree (or higher) in 2026 or have graduated within the last two years – all subjects and degree classifications welcome.

You will need the unrestricted right to work in the UK or US – for the two-year programme and beyond.

Want to dig
a little deeper?

We’re not after one “type” of person – we’re after all types. Our team’s a mix of backgrounds, cultures, genders, and life experiences and that’s exactly how we like it. Yes, you’ll need a degree (any subject, any classification), but what really makes you stand out is:

  • Drive and grit – you have the determination to make things happen

  • Entrepreneur spirit – one day you want to run the show

  • Fast learner – you can pick things up quickly

  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment – change doesn’t scare you

  • Low ego, high impact – you’re grounded but ambitious

Here’s the journey from “I’m interested” to “I’m in”:

  1. Apply

  2. Stage 1: Aptitude and psychometric tests
    Possible follow-up to video interview

  3. Stage 2: Video interview

  4. Assessment day: January/February 2026

  5. Offers made: February/March 2026

  6. Start: September 2026*

*If you’re keen to get started you can join us from June 2026.

The programme officially starts in September 2026, but you can join us during the summer before if you’re keen to get started.

This is not a "corporate" job based in Head Office, you'll be working at the heart of our business, in one of our small to medium-sized enterprises across the UK and US. You'll rotate through different roles, so you get a 360° view of our business. Think variety, challenge and a steep learning curve. Stuff like working in our sales teams to generate new customer leads, figuring out how to improve our technology to make us more agile, researching new markets and products to expand our business and working in our distribution centres to drive operational efficiency.

We’re an international group but you will be based in the UK or the US – your home location. Your rotations could take you to different businesses in your home country, so, yes, relocation might be part of the deal (don’t worry, we’ll help with costs).  

UK locations include – Swindon, Luton, Warwickshire, Preston, Liverpool.
US locations include – Louisville, Kentucky; Clearwater, Florida; Long Beach, California; Farmingdale, New York; Nashville (La Vergne), Tennessee; Richmond (Prince George), Virginia; Naperville, Illinois.

Yep. Some rotations might mean travel within your country, and once a year we all come together for a big development event – alternating between the US and UK. That means at least one international trip during the programme.

Right now, you’ll need to already have the unrestricted right to work in either the US or UK for the full duration of the programme and beyond.

In the UK, the starting salary is £38,000 and, in the US, the starting salary is $75,000. Plus some great benefits on top.

You’ll get:

  • A full orientation

  • On-the-job learning that actually matters

  • Structured training (in both the US and UK) to get you the right skills in sales, finance and leadership

You won’t be thrown in the deep end. You’ll have:

  • A supportive line manager

  • A mentor from within the business

  • The graduate programme lead

  • A community of other grads going through it with you

The goal is simple: to turn you into one of our future leaders. If you ace it, there’s a clear pathway to stay and grow into senior roles.