Canada - landing a Bay Street job as an Ivey MBA

Question

My background is 3 years of BB IBD outside US now considering doing MBA at Ivey (rationale is family is moving over to Canada).

What's Ivey's reputation of sending MBA grads to Bay Street? Which firms (both sell and buy side) would hire?

Appreciate comments from those with relevant knowledge and/or experience.

kanon · Accepted Answer

Ivey HBA (undergrad) is very different from Ivey MBA with regards to the caliber of students (higher on avg for HBAs) and caliber of recruiting opportunities (much greater for HBA vs MBA). For example - BBs (both local and US offices) and EBs recruit from Ivey HBA. PE opps from pensions, and some large/Mega funds like Silverlake can as well.

Ivey MBA’s 1+ yr program (formerly 2 yr) makes it difficult for career switchers (without prior banking or very relevant backgrounds coming in) that are interested in banking. I have to give kudos to Rotman for taking advantage of this switch.

s.ratnasw · Answer

I went to Ivey and I'm at RBC for banking - a lot of misinformation here. Cut Schulich out of the picture, how many MBA grads did they place into IBD exactly? My take between Rotman and Ivey:

Rotman has an advantage for career switchers due to the internship, as noted. However, if you don't land a job in FT recruiting, it's next to impossible to network your way in. 3/4's of my class from Ivey got an IBD job after traditional recruiting. The alumni base is a lot more helpful partially because the class is 1/4 the size.

Bond-James · Answer

"collahola"
thanks guys. i still can't get my head around of having to do an internship at this point, given by the time i do go do the mba, i will have become at least a 2nd year associate already (e.g. pulling comps (which i've currently delegated to my juniors...) for a full time associate who might be a few yrs younger than me? come on...)...but let me have a thought on this, for the sake of getting a full-time in the end anyways

You said you had done 3 years of BB IBD outside the US. Are you coming from a First World country? I ask because it makes a difference during recruiting.

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