I’m an incoming analyst and was wondering what I should be doing before my start date? Outside of the standard series prep / pre learning, is there anything that would be helpful to get a head start on? Should I be building a network in PE / HFs that I’m interested in? I know that sounds hardo, but I’ve heard it’s become even more difficult to do that while working FT, given the hours during wfh.
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More networking is never a bad Idea.
Is it frowned upon to reach out to places pre FT start?
I think its part of the game now a days
Have fun and enjoy time off before you're most likely working for the next 30-40 years
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Relax. This has nothing to do with college. This would be my advice to anyone about to enter the working world. If you have some time off between graduating and work starting why not spend that time enjoying a hobby, with friends or family, playing video games, literally whatever you think is fun and relaxing because you’re going to be spending the next two years dedicated to your job and that free time you have now will be virtually non existent
Also curious about this, particularly about building a network for laterals. I’ve heard mixed things about the acceptability of that.
Enjoy your free time while you have it. Drink beer, go to the beach, go camp, etc.
There's no best practices coming in for a job that a monkey could do.
Grind your excel/PPT skills so you’re more efficient and can sleep earlier
masturbate every day 4x a day for a week. That drained feeling afterwards? Yeah, that's how you are going to feel after 6 months in IB. Might aswell get used to it
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