Consulting internships, banks firing before bonus season, Trump Tariffs

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Spotlight Opportunity!

Are you a final year student or recent graduate looking to break into consulting?

Our Employer partner Q5 currently has their Management Consulting internships open (Those who joined the pre-application webinar last month will know 🫡)

They’re a boutique consultancy which specialises in organisational health across multiple industries, ranging from financial services to Oil & Gas for clients such as The F.A., Lloyd’s, BP and the House of Commons.

Having kicked off my strategy consulting career at a boutique consultancy, I can’t shout enough about how beneficial it was to building my consulting skillset and future career opportunities by helping me move to a global consultancy after.

So if you’re a:

• 1st Year Student

• Final Year Student or Recent Graduate

• Career Changers

• Looking to build their career within consulting

Then apply for their internships - Apply Here

Top Intern + Grad Job Picks

1. Q5 Management Consulting Spring Weeks and Internship - For the PowerPoint deck pushers

2. EY Audit Summer Internship July 2025 - Big 4 machine

3. PIMCO Trading 2025 Summer Internship - Finance boys and girls!

4. Standard Chartered Audit Graduate Scheme - Accounting & Finance lot

5. Legal Assistant - Merton Council - Law Troops (£43,000 starting salary!)

6. Publicis Groupe Paid Social Executive - Marketing Members

Commercial Awareness

• Labour releases its spring budget statement, which signals more welfare cuts

• Trump announces 25% car tariffs - hitting Europe hard in particular

• UK Households are saving a historically high proportion of income - which could hold back economic growth

Job Market News

• The five mistakes you’re making in your investment banking cover letter - straight from the banks’ mouths

• London Investment Bank pays zero bonuses for the 3rd year straight - 100 hour weeks for no bonuses? Straight Slave trade 😩

• The intense cheating to get a graduate job - I guess teamwork right?😭

• HSBC sacks Investment Bankers on Bonus day with no bonus given - very very much slimy work 🤮

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