Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) London is a not-for-profit organisation that every year provides hundreds of outstanding undergraduate students from under-represented ethnic minority backgrounds the unique opportunity to gain summer internships at some of the most prestigious investment banks, professional service firms and corporate law firms in the UK.
SEO London also provides students with extensive training, mentoring and networking, linking students not only to the firms that they work with, but to opportunities and experienced professionals throughout the entire financial services industry. By doing so, SEO London equally serves the diversity recruitment policies of its sponsor firms, as well as trains a future generation of business and community leaders.
In summer 2011 SEO is supporting more than 300 BME students to complete placements at more than 25 of the City’s leading professional service firms. At least 150 BME students are completing internships with investment banks such as Barclays Capital, BAML, Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC IB, JP Morgan, Macquarie, Morgan Stanley, and UBS. A further 150+ BME students have been placed with partner professional service firms (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC) and many leading magic circle and silver circle law firms (including Ashurst, Herbert Smith and Linklaters).
Specialties
graduate recruitment, undergraduate internships, diversity, professional training, mentoring, alumni network
