Recent Graduates
A world of opportunity... inside a robust, competitive, dynamic bank! You might be surprised to learn about the exciting range of career opportunities open to you at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking. The possibilities offered by our international network promote career as well as geographic mobility. Our rising talents have the opportunity to sharpen their skills with moves that include a stimulating change or a whole new career.
Experience abroad with the French International Assignments programme (VIE)
Are you a recent graduate, wanting to launch your career abroad?
In 2008, more than 300 graduates joined us through the VIE programme for 12-24 month contracts all around the world! Société Générale is the leading company in France using the VIE programme, all sectors included. At the moment there are more than 500 VIE personnel working in our Group.
Why join the VIE programme?
The contracts on offer reflect the Group’s broad diversity, both in the range of its activities and its global reach, enabling you to access roles with genuine responsibility while enjoying a truly multicultural experience.You will be entrusted with an ambitious role within the finance and investment bank or our retail bank abroad, a demonstration of the trust we place in each of our employee's entrepreneurship.
What types of contract?
The different professional fields in the finance and investment bank offer positions as varied as Assistant financial products engineer, Developer, Assistant Trader, Sales Manager, Strategist and Business Analyst.In retail banking, you could be given a contract as a Risk Analyst, Management Controller, Consultant Organiser, Auditor, Finance Manager, HR Consultant, Communications Manager, and many more.
Which countries?
We currently have VIE personnel fulfilling contracts in some forty countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Luxemburg, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Dubai, the Czech Republic, Romania, Georgia, Chad, Mauritania, and more.Why VIE with the Société Générale?
At the end of your contract, we will provide you with a report to enable us to discuss your future career and give you the chance to tell us about your plans for integrating into our Group.If on your return you wish to join the Group, you won’t have to repeat the recruitment process, because taking on a VIE contract with the Société Générale means that you have already been successful.
We want to integrate our VIE personnel: on your return you will be offered positions that lead on from the experience you will have acquired. More and more, our managers recognise and seek out the professional, human and multicultural experience embodied by our VIE personnel.
French International Assignment participation requirements:
- Final year student or recent graduate with five years of university studies
- Age from 18 to 28
- National of a member state in the European Economic Area
- Military service obligations fulfilled in the state of which you are a national
Our Group has 163,000 employees of 122 nationalities, present in 82 countries.