Networking w/ someone in Sales & Trading if interested in IBD

Currently networking to get into IBD. Have a chance to network with an MD of a Sales & Trading group. Is it appropriate for me to talk to him/her even if my interest is IBD? Benefits?

 
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This past fall I networked with a director in equity sales at a US MM/Can. BB and she said she would have been able to get an interview in the IBD had it not been too late at that bank (for SA rec.). Ultimately I had an interview in S&T which I totally bombed because I was improperly prepared. Granted this wasn't a cold contact so I don't know how 'offensive' it might seem to ask about IBD if that's the situation you're in.

 

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