Army to IB
I was just commissioned as an Army Officer out of West Point a couple months ago. I am now getting medically separated and would like to transition to IB. Does anyone have any tips?
Network with the vets. Plenty of them at great shops and will be super helpful with advice/getting you interviews.
I went to West Point / was in the Army for 5 years so I'll offer up my two cents. You're definitely on an unconventional timeline given you don't have a summer internship under your belt and you're gunning for a full-time role. Most of the well known shops recruit for the summer internship over a year out, so you're way behind the curve even if you elected to go that route, not to mention the summer internship is typically a year out from the actual full-time start date.
Getting hired directly as a full-time analyst without an internship isn't really possible at a BB or EB, but it's definitely doable at a lesser known middle market shop if you bust your ass with Wall Street Prep / online training and network hard.
Your best bet though is probably doing one of the veteran rotational programs, last I heard Bank of America and UBS offered these. From what I gather it's like a 6-month program where you rotate through a few different groups at the firm, i.e. sales & trading, IB, etc. As long as you do a good job it translates to a full-time role within one of the groups. I'd look for vets who have done this on LinkedIn and go from there. Best of luck!
...P.S. Army Football to the natty!!!
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