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Recruiting On-Campus Will Super Suck This Year and Here’s Why
On-Campus Recruiting in Flip-Flops On-Campus recruiting for investment banking has always been somewhat brutal. You arrive back to school in late August, early September bright eyed and bushy tailed, happy to see your friends, new laptop charged, #2 pencils...
Everyone Gets an Offer After Their Summer Internship?… Right?!?
No offer after your summer internship? It does happen. Some years it happens a lot. For instance the 2020 Covid summer, the 2011 World Financial Crisis Summer, or further back the 1998 currency meltdown / Russian debt crisis. Some years it is a...
How to Be a Stand-Out Candidate During Interview Process
How to Recover from a Bad Job Interview
Uh Oh, I'm Pretty Sure I Just Bombed My Interview Sometimes, no matter how much you prepare for an investment banking interview, something goes wrong. Maybe you didn't sleep well or woke up with an awful headache. Maybe you got stuck in an elevator (yes this really...
Ghosted by HR, Now What?
My Interviews Went Well, Now it's Radio Silence You completed three rounds of interviews, a technical case study and a super day. The MDs said that they loved you and you would be a great fit. HR said they’d get back to you within two weeks. No they've gone dark. What...
5 Epic Investment Banking Job Interview Fails
Networking Your Way Into a Buy-side Job
Unless you are starting your own fund or have a family member doing so, some sort of networking will be a crucial component of landing a great job on the buy-side. As we’ve discussed previously, recruiters frequently get...
Top Asian Investment Banks in the United States
Unfortunately Asian investment banks do not really take cold calls. Either you have guanxi (your dad is someone important in the Han elite) or you get in through the front door with a prestigious school, excellent grades in a quantitative discipline and fluent...
How To Land An Off Cycle Internship in Investment Banking?
What is the Value of an Off Cycle Internship? Off cycle internships are a great way for career switchers and recent grads to break into investment banking. Any hiring that takes place outside of the normal recruiting process is called off cycle hiring. Investment...
How to Deal with Investment Banker Burnout
Investment Banking can be Soul-Crushing, Burn-Out is Real As a financial recruiter who specializes in placing M&A professionals in sell-side roles, most of my day is spent on the phone speaking to disgruntled investment bankers. As a former banker myself, I am...
6 Epic Wall Street Movies on Netflix
6 Binge Worthy Wall Street Movies Pandemic got you down? Hate your boss and need to commiserate. It's time to fire up Netflix and watch one of these epic Wall Street movies. Educational? Maybe. Entertaining and somewhat Cringy, Absolutely. The Big Short (2015) The...
How to Quit Your Investment Banking Job (Without Burning Bridges)
How Not to Quit Even if you HATE your job and think your boss is a total a$$hole, quitting is really hard. It can be super difficult to resign tactfully with grace. Although you've probably had fantasies about telling off your smug staffer it’s not quite as simple as...