SEO London

SEO London

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) London is a not-for-profit organisation provides hundreds of outstanding undergraduate students from ethnic minority backgrounds under-represented in the City direct access to all of the very best graduate employers in the UK. In 2012 SEO will provide more than 600 internships for undergraduates in ALL years of study at many of the UK’s best graduate employers including ALL of the City’s leading investment banks and accounting practices and many top tier law firms, management consultants, multinational corporates and advertising agencies.

More than 80% of the 1,850 students supported by SEO since its launch in 2000 have gone on to secure full-time graduate positions at our partner firms.

What do you get from SEO London?

Access All Areas, All Firms – one application to SEO gives you access to more than 20 different career paths with 35+ of the UK’s best graduate employers.

Application Acceleration and Support – SEO will fast track you for final round interviews with partner firms as well as improve your CV and provide comprehensive coaching before interviews.

Comprehensive Training – receive up to 100 hours of tailored technical and soft skills training before your internship starts

Mentoring From Industry Experts – access to multiple industry mentors who will guide you through your summer internship experience

Network With CEOs –meet leaders from every firm and division in the industry through both SEO’s exclusive Seminar Series and extensive alumni network

Fast Track To Graduate – be the first to be considered for graduate interviews at all of our partner firms at the end of your internship

Lifetime Access – to SEO’s alumni support network at your firm and globally (more than 8,000 members worldwide)

For first year undergraduates

In the academic year 2011-12 SEO will provide more than 300 first year undergraduates with the unique opportunity to take part in the SEO First Year Fast Track programme. Those selected will take part in an interactive two day training programme to learn more about the City industry (or industries) they are interested in attend networking events with senior managers at our partner firms and be fast tracked for work experience/insight programmes at those firms in spring and/or summer 2012.

There are three different SEO First Year Fast Track programmes students can participate in – (1) Investment Banking (2) City Law and (3) Professional Services (covering Audit, Consulting and Tax). Each programme will involve sessions from senior managers and graduate recruiters from SEO’s partner firms designed to educate participants about the different businesses in each industry, the type of work undertaken and how to best prepare for interviews and applications into the industry.

SEO Partner Firms

Accenture, Ashurst, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Citi, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Factset, Freshfields, Goldman Sachs, Herbert Smith, HSBC GB&M, Jones Day J.P.Morgan, KPMG, Latham & Watkins, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Macquarie Capital, Mayer-Brown, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Norton Rose, Novartis, P&G, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Simmons & Simmons, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Winston & Strawn.