PE Recruiting--Nerves About Falling Behind

1st Year Analyst here at a decent EB (MOE/PWP/EVR; historical placements include MM/upper MM, ~1 MF per year) who got a late start to meeting with headhunters. I had a couple meetings in November, then got some staffings that were straight excruciating (long-shot pitchwork, general incompetence, hours evaporating, etc.) so am only just barely going to be finished with my first round of meeting HH's before Christmas.

There's already signs that I'm falling behind. Though I've gone to a few breakfast/networking events, these have been blasts to my whole group rather than targeted invite-only coffee chats, at least in part to my delay in meeting recruiters. With a workweek to go until winter break, it's likely that I'll be emptyhanded in that department going into January.

That all being said, a couple questions for the forum.

1) What's the correlation between these December coffee chat lists and the eventual interview lists?
2) Is it possible for me to "come back" (for MF/Upper MM recruiting) and end up on an interview list given my late start? Do you know of people on similar schedules who have done so?
3) At what point should I read the tea leaves and strongly consider just pushing back my process by a year given the late launch I had with most recruiters this time around?

As always, your help is greatly appreciated.

 

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