A one-page CV
Rebuilt live, scored 8+ on FixMyCV, with a variant matched to a real job.
The gap nobody teaches
Every year thousands of students clear CFA Level 1, 2 or 3, CA Final or FRM, and then lose interviews for reasons that have nothing to do with finance. A CV nobody reads past eight seconds. A story they cannot tell in ninety seconds. A technical round they prepared for like an exam. A first salary anchored too low, for a decade.
Nobody teaches this, at any institute, at any price. That is the whole reason this programme exists.
What you walk out holding
A LinkedIn profile recruiters find
Headline, About and Featured rebuilt; ten target firms and ten people.
Your 90-second introduction
On video, corrected in the room, re-shot after the grooming session.
The eight answers that decide it
The questions every panel asks, written, timed and rehearsed.
One role artefact
A stock pitch, a credit note, a model or a case — proof a stranger can open.
Your own AI interviewer
Running on your CV and target firm, for practice long after the cohort.
A salary range and the scripts
Researched from three sources and rehearsed, before your first offer.
A score out of 50
From people who do not teach you: CV, LinkedIn, technical mock, panel, GD.
What is inside the programme
The non-technical track
— Vidyut Kauntia- How hiring actually works, and where candidates disappear
- Resume workshop, rebuilt live with FixMyCV
- LinkedIn, and how recruiters really search
- A public proof trail: blogs, reels and posts recruiters find
- The eliminator round: answer, logic, proof
- Forty more questions, and your own AI interviewer
- Case interviews, taught with the technical faculty
- Communication under pressure and grooming
- The group discussion workshop
- Negotiation, the offer letter and your first ninety days
The technical track
— a market practitioner- What the technical round tests, with a live diagnostic
- Accounting and financial statement analysis, rapid-fire
- Valuation: defend every input you use
- The modelling test, assessments and take-home cases
- Markets, macro and “what is your view?”
- Finance cases, worked live
Choose two electives for your role:
- equity research and asset management
- investment banking, deals and valuation advisory
- corporate finance, FP&A and treasury
- risk and credit
- Big Four, audit, tax and the CA campus round
- wealth management and client-facing finance
The rehearsal, and then the real thing
A scored technical mock with an SSEI faculty member who did not teach you. Then a full day of group discussions and panel interviews, in person, with a working recruiter on the panel alongside our faculty and alumni. You are scored the way firms score, you get the scorecards the same evening, and you get the video of your own interview.
Hiring Week. Graduates who reach the Certified band get a week of real-format mock interviews and GD rounds with SSEI alumni and practitioners who interview for a living, held right after the cohort closes so that it lands in the hiring season. Alongside it, we share Certified profiles with the employers we already work with, based on the openings they have.
We do not promise you a job, and we will never tell you we can get you an interview. What we promise is that you walk into every interview as the best-prepared candidate in the room, with a score that proves it.
Who teaches you
Sanjay Saraf
Founder, SSEIThirty years in classrooms, 10,000+ rankers. In the room through the cohort.
Vidyut Kauntia
CEO, SSEITakes the entire non-technical track. Early team at Uber India, then Swvl in Dubai. He has hired, and he has sat on the other side of the table.
Technical faculty
To be announcedA working market practitioner takes the technical sessions and interviews.
Fees
₹15,999
If you hold an SSEI result
₹19,999
Everyone else
Free
Analyst Stack students who submit the capstone
All fees include GST. Nothing is payable now, and no payment is taken on this page. The cohort begins in November 2026. The full calendar goes to the selected students once applications close, because every application is read before a seat is offered and we would rather do that properly than rush it. Sessions run on weekends so the programme does not disturb college, articleship or your next exam attempt. Group discussions and personal interviews are held in person; everything else is a mix of live online and in person.
How a seat is reserved
Register your interest
Fill the form. It takes two minutes. This is an application, not an enrolment.
Profiling
Vidyut personally reviews every application: the intent, and the discipline to show up live for every session.
Confirmation
We tell you whether a seat is reserved for you. Not everyone gets one.
Payment
Only after your seat is confirmed. Never before.
There are 200 seats in cohort 1 and applications are already coming in from outside SSEI. The next cohort opens only after this one finishes.
Apply for a seatApplying does not confirm a seat. Every application is reviewed before a seat is offered.
Questions people ask
Is my seat confirmed when I fill the form?
No. The form registers your interest. Every application is reviewed before a seat is offered, and payment happens only after that.
Will this get me placed?
Nobody can promise you a job, and anyone who does is selling you something else. You get a score out of 50 from people who do not teach you, seven things in your hands most candidates never build, and a Hiring Week of mock interviews with alumni who hire, with your profile going to the employers we work with.
When exactly does it start?
In November 2026. We announce the full calendar once applications close, not before — every application is read before a seat is offered, and that review takes the time it takes. Sessions run on weekends, so the schedule is built to sit around a job, articleship or college. The day your seat is confirmed, you get the whole calendar.
Why are there no recordings?
Because you cannot be corrected by a recording. Everything worth keeping — the playbook, the templates, the question banks and your own videos — is yours permanently.
Will it clash with my CFA or CA preparation?
Weekends only, and it is built for people who already have a result in hand and are now job-hunting. If you are still preparing for your next attempt, a later cohort will suit you better.
Who takes the technical sessions?
A working market professional. We are finalising the name and will announce it before the cohort starts.
I did not study at SSEI. Can I apply?
Yes. The fee is ₹19,999 and the room is deliberately not only ours.