Dear College Kids

We get it, you want to be in IB, and are “super interested in our day to day” but stop contacting us like a crack addict looking for their next rock.

If you’re going to send a cold outreach to someone, at least check your message for grammar… we know you’re sending dozens of these messages a day (just like we did) but be professional about it.

You should not call someone you do not know out of the blue or text someone you do not know after midnight solely because you found their number online. These are things I thought were common sense / couth, but drawing the line in the sand anyways as some of you are way off the mark.

Happy hunting and best of luck.

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How are calls with college kids? Are they generally cringe / unprepped? 

 

Anonymous Monkey:

How are calls with college kids? Are they generally cringe / unprepped? 


Some yes some no - having a list of prepared questions (tailored towards someone’s background / LinkedIn) in your back pocket is good advice to any college kids reading this

 

Anonymous Monkey:

Well if there are grammar mistakes, at least I know they wrote the emails themselves. Compared to the ones that are obviously ChatGPT'd.


“Sure John, here’s a cold outreach email you can send to investment bankers”

 

Agreeing with OP here - specifically the amount of low effort emails I get is nuts. I respect the hustle and grind, but I’m getting way too many that are clearly templated and spammed en masse. Frankly I’d rather you just don’t sent them if you are going to send a zero effort email.

Doesn’t take a genius to know you don’t care about the email, I’m not going to respond, and this is just wasting your time sending them and my time deleting.

 

Are these kids not even using AI to help craft or check their message?

Only two sources I trust, Glenn Beck and singing woodland creatures.
 

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