Non-Target breaks into IB
This might be a little long so bare with me..its early in the morning,
I go to a completely non-target school where we get little B.O recruiting and pretty much all sort of management programs from Enterprise to Toysrus and Target. I went into my non-target school as a marketing major but was always interested in finance. it wasn't until I had my first finance course junior year that I decided I want to pursue finance and thus changed my major Spring of 2011.
I had a decent resume however the format sucked. I applied to this S.A, B.O position in my junior year and didn't get chosen for an interview and there I thought my life was over and gratefully discovered WSO. Looking back it was prob the best thing to happened to me, I might of never discovered WSO and known the difference between IB, S&T AM, PE ,E.R and BO, MO and FO.
After I discovered WSO I jumped around wanting to do S&T, AM and IB. I ended up wanting to pursue Ibanking because I have no passion for the market and Ibanking seemed logical since I wanted to end up at V.C firm because of my passion for Tech.
Last summer I spent networking with alums and non-alums I prob didn't network as much I should of but I did end getting an interview with a MM Ibanking firm but didn't walk away with an offer(first ib interview and superday learned a lot).
Come Jan of this year I was thinking of delaying graduation by a semester and try to break in. But had no interviews. I had gotten a superday invite for a commercial banking summer analyst gig but no offer. This was a huge blow to my self-esteem and thought it would be my last chance and that finance wasn't for me.
In March I applied to this diversity internship program where you get placed into a BB, MM or boutique in their Public finance division for a year. I applied and thought I wasn't chosen since I didn't hear back until the end of April. Last week I had my interview and yesterday I walked away with an offer and signed all my paper-work. I will be starting in July for a well known boutique that is a leader in Public Finance. So I officially made it into banking and from here I can move onto bigger and better things.
Special thanks
UFOinsider- Seeing how much he struggled to get where he is from his post makes me think twice about giving up.
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Things I recommend people should use
WSO- Technical guide-very helpful
WSO- Behavior guide- IMO this guide could be used for any interview, marketing, finance.
WSO Resume service- I have mixed feelings about this, it really made my resume look neat and sharp but when I started networking people made fixes along the way. Also I never got that follow up it says when you buy the service- what that about?
BIWS- Great to learn about modeling
BIWS- Interview guide
M&I
Looking back certain things happened for a reason and turn out to be for the best. If I had ever taken the B.O job I might of not found WSO and know the difference between B.O, M,O and F.O and not be as competitive as I am today. And I feel that this program will offer me with more opportunities than if I had gotten the offer from the MM I interviewed with.
Thank WSO and l ook forward to becoming a certified member next month and look forward to helping this community and other monkeys break in.
BTW- never had an internship, just sales jobs as telecom stores.







Good shit man, congrats.
Good shit man, congrats.
Beast! Always great to hear
Beast! Always great to hear non-targets break into the industry. I need to post my story once I'm done with finals >_>
Congrats. Considering you
Congrats. Considering you found WSO that late, that is great.
After your year is up, are you going to try and break-in to a BB/MM bank for their IBD?
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TheKid1: This might be a
This might be a little long so bare with me..its early in the morning
thats what she said
Congrats man! Great to
Congrats man! Great to hear.
...not sure what you mean about your Resume Review not getting a follow-up though? We'd be happy to take a look at our communication with you back during the review. ALL customers get a follow-up unless they say they are happy with draft #1 (usually there are tweaks either way from draft #1 to draft #2). My guess is you didn't voice any complaints/concerns but were secretly not so happy?
Please e-mail [email protected] so we know what client you were and who you worked with. We will take a look at what happened and how we can improve the process. I want to see if you didn't get a follow-up, because I've never heard that before. We have a 100% client satisfaction rate to date, so I'm not going to let you be the first person even mildly disappointed.
Thanks,
Patrick
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Congratulations! This is FT,
Congratulations! This is FT, right? I go to a complete non-target. Any advice would be appreciated. Again, congratulations. I am sure you earned it.
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Congrats man! Great to hear.
...not sure what you mean about your Resume Review not getting a follow-up though? We'd be happy to take a look at our communication with you back during the review. ALL customers get a follow-up unless they say they are happy with draft #1 (usually there are tweaks either way from draft #1 to draft #2). My guess is you didn't voice any complaints/concerns but were secretly not so happy?
Please e-mail [email protected] so we know what client you were and who you worked with. We will take a look at what happened and how we can improve the process. I want to see if you didn't get a follow-up, because I've never heard that before. We have a 100% client satisfaction rate to date, so I'm not going to let you be the first person even mildly disappointed.
Thanks,
Patrick
Thanks Patrick, don't get me wrong I'am happy with the service, it made my resume neat and sharp. In the section "what You'll get"- it says "Follow-up review to make sure you are satisfied with the final resume". I thought that the person who reviewed my resume would email me back a few months later too see how its going and if any other improvements can be made. It could be that I miss understood what that meant. Other than that I was happy with the service.
mhurriance- I am not sure
mhurriance- I am not sure what I'm going do later, but having IB will help open doors.
KKS- Yeah its F.T.. I didn't break in through networking, but I would recommend to network. I would recommend using the behavior guide- very helpful and go through each question and come up with your own answer or change it a little bit with the answer they give. I would also do practice interview with friends or just look at yourself in the mirror- sounds crazy but it helps...anymore question just ask away,