Hearing Back From Superdays
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on 1/29/10 at 6:31am
Do you always hear back from superdays? It has been a week since my lone superday and am wondering when I should give up hoping for an offer.
Also, would it make any difference if I e-mailed the interviewer I best connected with. He happens to work in the group I want to work in and I don't think it is a super sexy group in my country (power and utilities?) Worth it? What should I say? Unfortunately I have no other offers so I can't tell him to hurry up!
Thanks





1) Always follow up with each
1) Always follow up with each person you meet with. Send a thank you letter snail mail. It will stand out.
2) After not hearing for a week or two, it is respectable to send a follow up email to the superday coordinator (not a managing director, but an associate or vp) to check in to see if there were any updates with regards to the superday. Would not hurt to throw in one more plug how you connected with the team and are still extremely interested in the position etc.
3) Keep the follow ups short and to the point. We get a lot of interviewers and a lot of thank yous and run a busy schedule. We'll read the first couple sentences and skim the rest.
Good luck.
I think it all depends on
I think it all depends on which bank you interview with. Most of the banks that have a large presence in the US get back pretty quickly if a decision has already been made. My guess is that they might not be sure about you and want to keep you on the back burner.
Banks that have a smaller presence in the US (ie Macquarie, SocGen) it will sometimes take longer. Often senior HR members fly between home office and several other cities during the recruiting process, which significantly slows down the process. I think the longest I've waited after a Superday was 3 weeks to get an offer from these places.
As for reaching out, I think you should contact HR or the Superday coordinator (even if he's not the ibanker you connected with) first. If you find out that you've been waitlisted, then reach out to the person you best connected with during the interviews to express your continued interest. He might push for you to get an offer. It's useless reaching out to your favorite interviewer first, because decisions are made right after Superday. If he liked you, he'd voiced his opinion already. Contacting him would only create more hassle bc he'd have to call HR to contact you.
I have a feeling it is taking
I have a feeling it is taking so long because it was the first bank to have a superday on Bay Street. I was talking with some of the target school students and apparently the majority of their first round interviews didn't start until this week. Then I go on to assume that these guys are some of the top candidates and may want to consider their options elsewhere on bay street or perhaps in NYC.
What if I do not know the superday coordinator? Is it the HR person who sent out schedule of events? The guy I want to talk to is an associate...