What is FCT?

The FCT track includes training in finance and accounting, corporate services, and technology. Get customized training for individualized corporate topics including human resources, marketing, legal, strategy, operations, and general finance and accounting.

Each area offers over 100 hours of specified industry training in addition to soft skills training from the top internship program in finance and accounting, corporate services, and technology while jumpstarting your career with a paid internship (avg. summer salary $10K+).

“SEO Career provided me with the internship opportunities, individualized guidance, and interview support to land my offer.”

Ineiry SEO Career Participant

“The SEO Career Program has been a life-changing force in my professional journey, equipping me with practical tools and a community that believed in me, challenged me, and inspired me to grow. I’m deeply grateful for the doors it opened and the confidence it gave me.”

Michael SEO Career Participant

“The mentorship and network offered by SEO were the catalysts that propelled my journey to becoming a successful intern—making success not just a possibility, but a reality.”

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“SEO has been extremely transformative for me by providing the resources and personal coaching necessary to advance in my pursuit of a career in Acquisitions.”

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Finance and Accounting:

Accounting focuses on tracking and recording financial transactions while finance looks ahead, using historical data to forecast and drive business growth. These roles require analytical and interpersonal skills, the ability to multitask, and work independently and include managing day-to-day finances and guiding strategic decisions of a firm. Key functional areas including financial planning and analysis, business unit finance, financial operations, corporate development, controls, audit, risk, tax and treasury.

SEO training includes:

advanced Excel, financial analysis and accounting certifications.

Roles available include:

Financial analyst co-op, tax reporting, global finance business management, supply chain finance and global internal audit.

Level Up: Insurance

Select and interested undergraduates can gain exposure to the large variety of roles available in the insurance industry — opportunities you might not be aware of.

The insurance industry is ripe for SEO Career talent and offers significant benefits including earning potential and career mobility. Level Up will also educate you on the role of insurance in generational wealth building. 

The Level Up Insurance program is unique to SEO Career  and we’re thrilled to have the MetLife Foundation and Guardian Life Insurance Company as the founding sponsors of this program.

Roles in insurance include:

 Investing, corporate finance, accounting, technology, sales and marketing

Corporate:

This track is a diverse and essential ecosystem of the global economy.  Corporate professionals across all industries work collaboratively within their teams to ensure a business continues to grow resources and talent. Covers a wide range of functional services like marketing, human resources, strategy consulting, operations, legal, compliance and services, with specific roles for each. These roles require strong communicators with problem-solving skills, and someone detail-oriented with the ability to think creatively outside the box.

SEO training includes:

Six-Sigma, Agile Methodology, Excel certifications and SQL.

  • Marketing roles available:

    marketing analyst, business development, corporate marketing & communications, media relations, sales, content marketing, digital marketing

  • Human Resources roles available:

    HR, learning and development, talent acquisition, recruiting, human capital, diversity, equity and inclusion

  • Strategy Consulting roles available:

    strategy & management, business initiatives, strategic planning

  • Operations roles available:

    operations analyst, project management, client management analyst, data operations

  • Legal, Compliance, and Services roles available:

    legal, compliance, risk, services

Technology:

The tech track focuses on tech inside an investment bank or a corporate firm, creating and applying innovative solutions that drive productivity and enable these revenue generating businesses to meet their strategic goals. Successful candidates need a variety of technical and interpersonal skills such as proficiency in object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, information security and other areas gained through coursework and participation in tech-related internships or personal projects. Covers areas in hardware/software engineering, IT infrastructure, cyber security, UI/UX design, product management and more.

SEO training includes:

LeetCode, Python, SQL, and other programs relevant to the specific internship.

Roles available include:

Software engineering, global markets technology team, it services, data management, product development, cybersecurity, help desk, tech consultant, quantitative analytics and user experience.

Expand your talent pipeline with desk-ready FCT talent.

Hear from Madison, #SEOCareer participant!