Early careers
We are building a well-rounded pool of future talent through:
By working with our partners to increase the diverse pool of talent across our industry, we can help bring to the entire sector forward.
Graduate programme
Our graduate programme develops the next generation of talent, attracting top candidates into our London‐based, two‐year programmes within our investment, marketing and corporate teams.
We invest heavily in our graduates’ development and success and support them holistically as they grow into accomplished professionals. We offer:
- Trust, responsibility and compelling opportunities from the outset
- An accelerated career path with tailored training, mentoring and support
- Options to complete professional and technical qualifications
- Regular access to industry experts and networks as well as senior leadership
- A competitive package, including extensive career and personal benefits
Please note, the content of our graduate recruitment website was designed to support the 2024 recruitment campaign and may not reflect a possible future graduate recruitment round. For our latest updates, keep an eye on this page and follow us on LinkedIn. Our programmes typically begin in the month of September, with applications opening at least 12 months prior. For our 2024 intake, applicants applied during August – October 2023.
Visit our graduate recruitment website
Graduates meeting outside our London Club Room
Internship programme
Our internships take place during June – August at our London and New York offices, and are typically aimed at students in their second or final year of study.
Previous cycles have seen interns join our investment, marketing, HR and corporate teams – however, specific team opportunities may vary year on year.
To recruit for our internship programme, we currently use the following partners:
Please apply for internships at ICG directly through these websites.
Summer interns in London
What surprised me about ICG? What attracted me to ICG? My advice to other grads …
Meet five members of our 2022-24 graduate scheme — Himani, Maisie, Kayleigh, Josh and Eve.
upReach
upReach is a social mobility charity founded in 2012, delivering a tailored programme of 1-to-1 career support and opportunities to enable undergraduates from less-advantaged backgrounds to secure top jobs by supporting them to overcome the barriers to entry. This is achieved by working with employers and universities to bring about a social change.
ICG and upReach have formed a relationship both through their collaborative work with the Diversity Project and separately to develop ICG’s summer intern programme.
upReach
Sixth formers taking part in an upReach work experience programme
upReach meets ICG’s Mohammed Safayat
ICG Real Estate Graduate Mohammed Safayat is interviewed by the social mobility charity alongside Cameron Scott from Bain & Company and Ovais Karim from Bank of America. As part of Social Mobility Awareness Day 2023, the three answer questions:
- What does social mobility mean to you?
- As someone who comes from a less advantaged background, what challenges did you face during university and how did you overcome them?
- In your experience, how does the university experience differ from students from a lower socioeconomic background compared to those from a more advantaged background?
- What advice would you give to students from a lower socioeconomic background?
- How do you think employers and organisations can champion social mobility?
GAIN – Girls Are INvestors
We are working with GAIN to enhance our summer intern programme.
GAIN’s internship programme is open to female and non-binary students across the UK who aspire to have a career in investment management. For summer 2022, it is partnering with Level 20, offering 140+ internships across more than 85 investment firms.
GAIN
GAIN 2021 interns
SEO
SEO (Seizing Every Opportunity) was founded in the United States in 1963 as a mentoring programme dedicated to providing supplemental educational and career support to young people from underserved and underrepresented communities.
As well as offering summer internships at our New York City office, we run company overview events for SEO cohorts, provide mentorship to an SEO fellows, and in the past ICG employees have taken part in a private equity simulation programme run by the organisation.
SEO
SEO Scholars
BUCS
We work with BUCS — the national governing body for sport within higher education in the UK — as its Women’s Hockey Programme headline partner.
BUCS’ vision is to create the best university sport experience in the world.
Our partnership is centred on ‘working together to deliver performance’ – a common value between both organisations and we are delighted to be supporting the next generation of female leaders.
BUCS
University hockey championship winners
OLLMOO
OLLIMOO brings undiscovered talent to light and connects future female leaders to leading employers worldwide. Their mission is to create more opportunities for women to progress and succeed as leaders – in the interest of their own development and fulfilment, as well as in the interests of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in business and society at large.
We are working with OLLMOO to enhance our summer internship offering in NYC. Please apply through their page.
OLLMOO
OLLMOO ambassadors
