I was just shown a LinkedIn profile of a kid working as an Analyst who had a list of the offers he'd received through recruiting on his LinkedIn. Jesus Christ children!
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Link or it didn't happen
Seriously - post a pic because that is hilarious
I'll post a redacted (too harsh to name and shame) one later.
lol thats funny
pics or gtfo
There is never a bottom to how bad things can get. No matter how bad something is, there is always multiple ways to make it even worse.
Though, to be fair, this is definitely bottom fishing.
I don't understand why he even thought this would look good. You're obviously going to take the best offer... It's not like college acceptances where you can make the case for the lack of financial aid at one school vs. another (ex: attending UCB on a full ride vs. accepted to Harvard).
probably one of those guys who put an inspirational quote in their summary/tagline
+1 for your avatar, made me lol
also I hate that. it's not your senior year quote in the yearbook, keep it classy
pic or it didn't happen
Editing my profile to "Graduated from Harvard College. Also received offers from Stanford and Yale. Did not apply to other universities because they are not prestigious enough on WSO. Would have easily gotten into Princeton if I wanted to but Brady told me that only people with an inferiority complex apply there." as we speak. Should I also include offers I could have gotten if I wanted to? For example, I could have easily been an astronaut if I wanted to.
P.S. Should I also say something like Incoming CEO of Apollo? Just in case people have any doubts about my career trajectory.
Thank you in advance!
I'm gonna start putting a list of girls who liked me to date.
Pic attached to original post.
The bro's name isn't redacted on the right side, under "500+ connections." Just wanted to give you a heads up, for the sake of privacy. But now at least I can check to see if he adds "Featured on WSO" under his "Offers" section.
Oh dear god. I just found another LinkedIn profile that listed under one of their internships "Outcome: Fast-Tracked for 2015 summer internship but received 2 other offers before interview"
Also, since when did writing "Outcome" below each job / internship start becoming a thing??
EDIT: he also included one of his interviews as a "job" on his LinkedIn
This is rock bottom for sure.. I would have a hard time believing it could get worse than this.
Too good not to share... thought about blanking out the firm names but anyone who really wanted to find the profile would still have been able to. Also realised I have several shared connections with this guy - I am strongly considering deleting them from my LinkedIn.
http://imgur.com/LQroE1G
Minus what you already pointed out, I think what's funny about this one is that there is a bullet point saying he got a tour of the trading floor.
Haaa I didn't even see that. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
is this a UK thing? never seen anything even close to like this in the states...
No it's most certainly not a UK thing, or at least I hope not. I am starting to see some people in the UK put "Outcome: XYZ" at the bottom of internships though. Absolutely revolting.
I think us Brits find this sort of thing especially amusing because (a) no one writes / talks like that here, the tone is far too forward (my first thought was actually that they probably got that advice from some US 'break-into-IBD' website); and (b) we loathe try-hards
This one's even better.
People need to stop with this "Front Office Spring Analyst" bullshit. You're a kid on a fucking insight programme doing nothing but sitting in seminars and shadowing staff. Stop playing it up. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the City knows exactly what is involved in a Spring Week.
Hahahaha, that was a good read. "Royal Australian Air Force legal officer candidate with a view to becoming a Light Cavalry Scout in the Royal Australian Army." I'm sorry, what? Candidate who refers to himself as Lt Cdr? Also, I know 3 people who were working at a law firm he claimed to work at, a Partner, an Associate and a Trainee. Not surprisingly, none are connected with him on LinkedIn or know of this guy.
Edit: His youtube channel popped up when I googled one of his companies, he's definitely not all there in the head. Makes sense with that LinkedIn profile, poor guy.
hmm... I don't know if this is douchy or not.. I have never done this, or even knew this happened but a linkedin profile is not meant to be read like Shakespeare .. it is supposed to communicate your work credentials and I suppose getting fast-tracked does signal some competence.. just like getting multiple offers.
Bottomline, is it borderline trashy? Yes.. but there is so much competition for the few "good" jobs out and the fact that many kids do move back in with their parents after college coz they got no job ... I guess what I am saying is that it is not the "tradition" but I understand why these kids want to leverage every little bit of their background
You don't need to leverage anything if you've already got multiple offers
because everyone interviews only once in their life??
I agree - people are acting like this is the funniest faux pas ever when it's really not (except maybe the phrasing?). Like it'd be pretty reasonable for someone interviewing for FT roles post-internship to have a bullet point that said something like "Received offer to return as a full-time analyst" and in their interviews, talk about whatever other offers they might have. Not that I would do it like these guys have, but I can see how their thought process worked and I guess I don't find it quite as entertaining as everyone else.
it is a faux pas, by putting his offers essentially he's saying "these people want me, and so should you." instead of the preferable "here are my credentials, please consider me"
no NSFW warning for the pic? come on
I'm going to update my MBA education section to: Offered admission into CBS, Booth and Wharton. Nice!
This is what happens when kids are constantly being told to put emphasis on "results" when writing a CV. You end up with a bunch of bullshit metrics and cringeworthy notes like that, just to (hopefully) impress those reading it.
I'm surprised he doesn't have a 4-paragraph self-summary written in the third-person.
Something tells me that kid spends a lot of time on WSO
how prefftigious my god
These UK spring week things sound like such a joke. I've come across countless profiles of kids with multiple "Spring Analyst" positions where all they did was probably shadow different groups. I get that they're important for getting offers but I just hate how aspiring analysts portray them on their profiles.
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I had a guy reach out to me as a contact on LinkedIn. Said he was part of the 2007 Lehman Brothers S&T Analyst class on his resume. Only though I still have a copy of the Lehman 2007 facebook... and he's not on there. I also didn't see his Series 7 record (every Capital Markets FT Analyst had to take it.) He also claimed to have a bunch of other experience, including being a quant PM, Harvard undergrad, and was a serial LinkedIn connector. (I couldn't find anything from alternative sources to validate any of these claims.)
So I didn't accept the connection and then talked to two of my friends who had been added and they removed him- apparently they had never met him either.
Two weeks later he added my current fund to his LinkedIn profile after a bunch of other connection here got added.
The guy in the OP just seems to be guilty of poor taste... not sociopathic lying.
Just as long as none of my LinkedIn connections show up on American Greed in five years... and as long as all of them are people I've met at one point or another.
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