Crazy to email every single person?
Did a search through the alumni list and found over 600+ that work in finance. Over 400 of them are in BBs or hedge funds.
How crazy would it be to email every single 600 of them asking for informational interviews? Besides the time constraint, I can also imagine a possible scenario. Two alums who work right next to each other on the trading floor both receiving my emails. "Hey you got an email from him?" "So did I! Jimmy got one too!"
Could this backfire in anyway?
Why don't you go through the list and pick and choose the ones that would be of most interest? So if you want to work in IBD, email different alumni from different BBs. If you want to work at a hedge fund, email some from different hedge funds with strategies you are interested in, etc..
I don't think emailing 600+ people will be better than picking and choosing some that work in places you would want to work.
there are over 300 names that work in BBs
Do you have any career focus whatsoever? You realize within a BB firm there are many departments? I'll tell you what, why don't you cull that list down to just the people working in BB ops. That's where people like you belong.
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Do you have any career focus whatsoever? You realize within a BB firm there are many departments? I'll tell you what, why don't you cull that list down to just the people working in BB ops. That's where people like you belong.
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Agreed. Contact those who work in the industry you are interested in.
Also, I would suggest contacting those who are higher up in the firm (VPs, MDs...). That should help you cut down the number of alumni to email and VPs & MDs will be more helpful in securing a job because they have a lot more pull than A&As. However, don't be afraid to contact as many alumni as possible. It's a numbers game, especially in this market. The larger the network you have, the better chance you have at creating a connection that could lead to an offer.
Start with five to twenty; a few will get back to you. Base your yield on your initial results and email additional people as needed. Let's say all three hundred got back to you; you're going to have to reject at least 270 of them, probably more like 290, thereby burning 90-97% of your bridges.
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[quote=ibankinglife]Start with five to twenty; a few will get back to you. Base your yield on your initial results and email additional people as needed. Let's say all three hundred got back to you; you're going to have to reject at least 270 of them, probably more like 290, thereby burning 90-97% of your bridges.
http://ibankinglife.blogspot.com[/quote] also, your first few emails will probably suck. it would be a good idea to practice your email etiquette on a few alumni before you send out emails to more.
And how about the fact that if you want any replies you're going to have to somehow show some interest in what it is they actually do? A generic email will be very obvious. Are you going to email it 600 times too or actually just bcc everybody. Actually no that'd be too smart, you might as well put them all in the address line so that you can show them you're so interested in working on the street that you've emailed everybody on the street.
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