After SA ---> Recruit full-time a bad move or no?

I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on full-time recruiting after a SA stint. If someone is at a less prestigious bank with bad deal flow, would it be wise to stay a year or more at that bank full-time or use the return offer to recruit full-time elsewhere?

I do believe there is merit in building a reputation and showing loyalty, but would that individual pay for that over the long-term or would it make future full-time recruiting more difficult? Would it help full-time recruiting as an experienced analyst?

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Fuck loyalty. I promise you no one - not a single soul, no matter what the they tell you - at your old bank will care about your career decisions.

The ones who do, are not relationships worth keeping. What's most surprising is that most people will actually be supportive of you trying to go to a "better bank" (ie. people at my internship last summer encouraged me to look for better places because they thought I had potential). If not supportive, most people would at least understand.

And if they don't, they can fuck themselves.

Seriously though, you literally got nothing to lose. Obviously don't disclose the fact that you're full-time recruiting at other places. Be very discrete about the whole thing. And never let HR know anything less than you absolutely love the bank and want to return full-time.

 

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