Ruder Finn’s paid Executive Training Program  provides recent graduates a unique opportunity to join a fast-paced, future-focused environment and learn from peers and leaders across the agency.

Created in 1978, our ET Program offers Executive Trainees the opportunity to gain hands-on experience as integral members of account teams, working full-time on exciting client work across various sectors. Throughout the program, ETs engage in lunch & learn sessions, workshops, and hands-on client work, designed to build essential communications expertise and future-ready skills.

Ruder Finn is a collaborative and energetic group of professionals who place a high priority on strategic thinking, ingenuity, imagination, and the ability to solve complex problems that deliver measurable business results. Executive Trainees will have the opportunity to contribute to client meetings, research, media monitoring, content creation, meeting recaps, AI and technology-enabled projects, and more.

Each Executive Trainee is assigned to support one of our core sectors, specialty groups, or Ruder Finn Group Agencies, such as Peppercomm and Touchdown. Many of Ruder Finn’s U.S. employees started their careers in the ET Program – including our Chief Technology Officer, our Chief Innovation Officer, and EVP of Corporate Healthcare.