First day as an IB Analyst. What to expect?
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on 9/11/12 at 3:30am
So, my first day is going to be in a week in a MM as an IB Analyst. I was just wondering what my day will look like?






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Serious answer
Serious answer incoming.
You'll probably have a morning of presentations, meetings and introductions showing you some of the main people in the office, some of the support staff (read - the people who will do your PowerPoints while you dash home to sleep, treat them well!) and HR people.
You'll probably go to your desk around 11-12 and then get set up with IT, introduced to the team (assuming you didn't intern with them), maybe even get taken for a lunch if they're nice, and an Associate will give you some busy-work in Excel / Powerpoint which isn't that important but will tell him whether you are a moron or not. Send a very brief circular email to the group (1-2 lines absolute max) introducing yourself and giving out your mobile number.
Stay until someone tells you to go home, if you are sitting around doing literally nothing ask anyone you've already established rapport with if there is anything you can do to help. When an Associate or above tells you that you can go home and the serious work will start the next day, LEAVE. Make sure to get there before everyone else the next day though.
The first day is the perfect time to set up your desktop, screen arrangement, email inbox folders, internet bookmarks etc. Go and bookmark the investor relations sites of all your major clients, FT, WSJ, Bloomberg as well as any news sources for your particular sector - subscribe to any mailing alerts if they are available. This is also a great time to familiarise yourself with FactSet / CapitalIQ / Bloomberg and set them up to your liking as well as the Excel plugin your firm uses (shortcuts!).
One other tip for organisation - ask a second year analyst if there are any mailing lists within the bank you should get yourself added to (ER updates, some traders with their finger on the pulse, market commentary etc).
If you've done ALL this and still have nothing to do, find an old pitch book file and model and make sure you can print them properly (not the full bound experience, the quick printoffs for team meetings) and everything is aligned and coming out on the right number of pages.
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Find the biggest guy you can and knock him out or become someone's bitch
This is the 21st century, there is no reason to be barbaric like this...
Find the biggest PERSON you can and knock them out or become someone's bitch. Keep it gender neutral, people will appreciate that you aren't sexist in the office.
This to all my hatin' folks seeing me getting guac right now..
Cruncharoo: adapt or
Find the biggest guy you can and knock him out or become someone's bitch
This is the 21st century, there is no reason to be barbaric like this...
Find the biggest PERSON you can and knock them out or become someone's bitch. Keep it gender neutral, people will appreciate that you aren't sexist in the office.
You're right and perhaps "someone's bitch" should be somone's pocket holding minion
Piss in the VP's office to
Piss in the VP's office to mark your future territory
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