Frequently asked questions

You must have completed a science, technical or economic high school programme. You can also apply if you have completed the corresponding IB programme or the Technical Preparatory Year.  

You can be a maximum of 21 years old when you apply for the internship.

Exception: If you graduate from high school when you are older than 21 because you have recently arrived, completed your military service, completed a technical foundation year or for personal reasons needed to re-study or take a break from studies, it is still possible for you to apply for a year. Tekniksprånget. Email tspraktikant@iva.se and you will receive instructions on how to register and apply.

If you have a diploma from foreign upper secondary education, you can also apply, as long as you have a Swedish personal identity number and are resident in Sweden during the internship.

The application period for this autumn's internship  is between 16 April and 6 May.

The application period for this spring's internship is between 16 October and 6 November.

The exact dates of the internship vary from employer to employer.

The spring semester usually starts in Jan/Feb and ends in May/June.
The autumn term usually starts in August/September and ends in connection with the Christmas holidays.

The internship is always 4 months long and is full-time (about 8h/day, Mon-Fri). The employer will decide the exact start date, so talk to them about what applies to your internship if you are called for an interview.

The salary is SEK 18 182 /month and applies from April 1, 2024. The salary level for 2024 has been agreed between the employers' organisation Teknikföretagen and the trade unions Unionen and the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers. 

No, you can only do Tekniksprånget once.

Yes, you can. You can apply for an internship in Tekniksprånget without it affecting your chances of being admitted to a programme.

On the other hand, the internship is full-time, Mon-Fri 8h/day, so it is difficult to combine with studies at the same time if you are admitted to both.

Unless otherwise stated in the contract between the intern and the employer, the Annual Leave Act applies. If the trainee does not take annual leave, it is recommended that holiday pay is paid at the end of the employment.

All employers involved in the project are listed on the tekniksprånget.se under the tab "Participating employers". However, not all employers have the opportunity to take on interns every semester. This can be due to various things, but that is why the list of "Participating Employers" on our website differs from the list of Eligible Employers in our application portal.

The places that are available to apply for are posted continuously in the application portal the month before each application period starts. To see all available seats, it is best to check exactly when the period starts.

1. Register an account on teknikspranget.se.
2. Go to "Apply here" via your account. There you can see all the internships offered for the upcoming semester; Which company it is at, which location and you can read about what the internship will include for each place.
3. Create an application for each internship you are interested in. You can create 15 applications per semester and mark 3 of them as favorites. The applications are not in order of priority and employers cannot see if you have applied to others.

You can apply for a maximum of 15 places per semester, and we recommend that you apply as many as possible to increase your chances of being admitted. Employers will not be able to see if you have applied to other positions.

If an employer you have applied to is interested in your application, they will contact you themselves via email and phone for an interview. If you are offered an internship by several different companies, you choose which of them you want to say yes to.

Here you can find help to calculate your average grade. Don't forget to state zero as merit points.

Here you will get help to calculate your merit points. You can earn a maximum of 2.5 Merit Points. 

If you have grades from foreign upper secondary education, you can translate your grades here.

Are you still in high school and graduating this spring and want to apply for an internship in the fall? Fill in your most recent grade point average score. In other words, it will be an estimated average grade where you add your completed courses to the grade you expect in the courses you have not yet completed. You should not include extra merit points in your GPA. If your final average rating varies a little from what you filled in, don't worry.

For each application you make, you need to fill in a field where you answer why you are applying and why you would be a good fit for the position. It works a bit like a cover letter. If you haven't written a cover letter or listed previous experience before, there are helpful tips here. Don't forget that you can adapt the text of why you are applying for the place for each application, it is usually appreciated by the employers who participate.

The text for search motivation should preferably be at least 5 sentences. If you write too little, employers have a hard time getting anything out of it, but if you write too long, it can easily become content that is redundant or repetitive. The field can be filled with a maximum of 2500 characters including spaces.

CV
For each application you create, you must also attach a CV. You can attach a CV either as a file (preferably as a PDF) or as a link (e.g. to an open document available online), but keep in mind that many employers primarily look at the information you have filled in the fields with your application.

When you register on Tekniksprånget's website, you fill in information about your previous experience and this field is also automatically included in your applications.

Here you describe whether you have previous work experience or experience from, for example, association involvement, sports movements and volunteer assignments. It should preferably be linked to knowledge/lessons you have gained that can be used during the internship. 

See more tips on what and how you can write here.

The field "Any other information to the employer" is optional where you can write, for example, if you are only available after a certain date. You can leave it blank if you don't have anything special you need to notify the employer about.

To edit or supplement an application, go to "My applications" in your account and select "Show all", then click on the application's unique application number. This will take you to the individual application and you can see what information is filled in and which files are attached. You can edit the information in your applications until the portal closes (May 6 / Nov 6).

You can write in either Swedish or English, it depends on what you are most comfortable with. If, on the other hand, you want to apply for an advertisement that is in English, we recommend that you also write the application in English.

Admissions take place on an ongoing basis after the application portal closes and the employers themselves contact and conduct interviews with the applicants they are interested in.

Some employers start their recruitment already during the application period, so please apply well in advance of the last day so you have the opportunity to participate in the recruitment processes earlier.

It is important that you are contactable by email and phone during the application period and especially afterwards. Always get in touch with employers who get in touch with you, both if you are interested in the position or if you have chosen to go to someone else.

There is no exact date for notification of a place (such as on the application to university) since admission to Tekniksprånget's places takes place on an ongoing basis as regular job interviews. Usually, we are able to give notice to most people in January for the spring internship and July for the autumn internship, but we can never guarantee that all internships are filled by then because the participating employers have different processes for recruitment that can take different lengths of time.

When an employer has completed their recruitment, an email is sent to everyone who applied to them but was not accepted. If, on the other hand, you have been admitted and it has been marked in the portal, you will not receive an email about the other places you have applied to.

The e-mails may end up in your spam folder, so make sure to go in and look there if you can't find e-mails from us!

You can always see the status of your applications by logging into your account and going to "My applications".

If you are offered a place but realize that you want to do something else, you can decline it. Just keep in mind that there are many who apply, so try to decline as early as possible so that someone else can take your place.

Yes, you can apply as many times as you like as long as you are no more than 21 years old and have not received a place before.