Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity is the nation’s premier summer internship program for talented students of color leading to full-time job offers. Since its inception, SEO’s Career Program has placed nearly 4,500 Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian and Native American students in internships that lead to opportunities in exciting and rewarding careers in the most competitive industries worldwide. Our program is featured in Princeton Review’s 109 Best Internships in America, and is a gateway to the most coveted and highest paying careers. More than 80% (our recruiter has a 90% rate of success) of SEO interns receive job offers from SEO partners after their internships. SEO grooms its interns to excel in the workplace and become leaders in their communities who will give back and forge a path to success for the next generation. As a direct result of the Career Program and the high performance of its interns, SEO has significantly increased the number of people of color employed on Wall Street, corporate law firms and by major corporations nationwide.

 

SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity),  http://www.seo-usa.org/career/ offers fast track Career Internship Programs to ethnically diverse students.

 

This internship program is open to all majors.  Majors that focus on analytical skills and/or interests in corporate law such as concentrations in Business (Finance, Accounting), Natural Sciences (Applied Computing Technology, Applied Math, Psychology), Engineering, Liberal Arts (Economics, Political Science, Sociology) are especially good skills matches.

  • SEO’s program is featured in Princeton Review’s as among the109 Best Internships in America.
  • Last year, SEO offered 437 internships in 7 programs – students represented 120+ universities across the country.
  • More than 80% of the interns receive full time career offers
  • Internships are high level, interface with executives/have executive mentoring component, and are highly paid
  • Partner companies in Banking, Asset Management and Accounting include Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Citi, Banc of America Securities, BlackRock, Lazard and UBS.
  • Global Corporate Program include partner firms include Johnson & Johnson – other partners include IBM, Xerox, EMC, and AXA.
  • SEO Corporate Law Internship partners:  http://www.seo-usa.org/career/page.aspx?pageID=96 

When the economy and markets have been in flux, SEO’s program has continued offering internships for 30 years – and with our diversity of programs and partners we will again have a large program offering hundreds of paid internships that lead to full-time jobs to students of color.  

 

Requirements:  Undergraduate students are required to have above a 3.0 GPAMost of internships are for Juniors – there are a limited number of internships for sophomoresComplete rigorous interview processWillingness to relocate to the internship site for the summer outside of Colorado

 

Deadlines:  Round 1/November 1, Round 2/December 15, Round 3/January 31

 

For complete details and to apply online, go to http://www.seo-usa.org/career.