IB to MBB - Month of Free Time
Hey, everyone!
I am currently an Investment Banking Analyst and will be joining MBB on March 7th. I have my last day in banking on January 14th, and I am trying to figure out what to do with ~6 weeks of free time.
Any suggestions on if there's anything that would be helpful to learn in advance would be much appreciated.
Also, am I safe to assume there's no risk of the MBB role falling through? Have signed the offer and cleared the background check, but am paranoid that I'm going to be left without a job lol... Just put in my 2 weeks' notice.
Any advice here would be much appreciated.
In all honesty, just relax and enjoy your much-needed time off. Getting into IB AND MBB is work enough. I'd say 99% of the skills developed are obtained at the firm through formal or informal training. That's from understanding who to go to within the organization for information, the best practices specific to the team/firm/office your joining and any technical skills they will help you polish up in the first few weeks on the job.
Instead of trying to pre-emptively prepare, rather you take some time to relax and come in refreshed.
Just recently made the switch from IB to consulting myself and had ~4 weeks in between...traveled for 3 out of those 4 weeks and it was definitely the right decision. Don't think there's really a need to spend time learning anything in advance - you already have the Excel/PowerPoint/general professional etiquette skills from banking. Anything else necessary will be shown to you on the job. If you cleared the background check I'd say there is an extremely small chance of the role falling through unless there's an extraordinarily negative economic/market shift over the next couple of months.
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Vegas, LA, London, Amsterdam with my gf and some friends…also met up with people that we knew who lived in a couple of those locations. Feel free to DM me if you need any recs…I traveled extensively and worked remotely from many different places during the pandemic
Out of interest, I thought consulting would be more stable than an IB job in the event of a downturn?
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