Do bankers check resumes before networking calls?
Hey guys, I'm currently recruiting for SA27. I was wondering if bankers check the student's resume before agreeing to a call/responding? Or do the bankers not check the resume and just agree to most calls who are students from the same school as them?
Just trying to see if there's a correlation to a qualified candidate based on resume and the response rate vs. not having a good resume and getting calls.
For me it’s a combination of what’s in the email (are you blindly mass spamming), if something resonates connection wise, are you qualified / appear legitimately interested, and honestly the day. If it’s a slow day more likely to look and be more thoughtful around assessing. If jammed unfortunately the inbound likely getting buried and deprioritized for a bit. There is no scientific formula for weighting the above but low GPAs, on the advice of my campus team, likely screened out (if a personal connection or something in common that resonates I will do a quick call to give concrete advice in certain cases).
Not scientific but a lot of people advise in being thoughtful in approach and that is generally a good policy.
Appreciate the advice, thanks! I’ve also had a lot of MD’s forward my resume to HR or tell me to email my resume to them once I apply. Is this a standard protocol, or a good sign?
At the margin positive with reply but hard to read too much into any single data point and could also be punting you. A lot of things are process. An MD, a Director, VP, Associate or analyst rarely had a lot of individual sway until round tables on resume selects where someone is vocal / pounds a table suggesting someone should / should not get an interview.
Too many times I see / hear about people mass spamming and getting some engagement but not realizing who they are talking to is not in a core or non-core recruiting team and feedback being logged into a list with 80-120 other resumes (a lot more for non-core schools).
Need to be thoughtful about speaking to who is going to be in the room when they are sorting resumes and if following norms etc. For example if there is a core team and an individual has spam pinged 20 MDs and got replies from 2 that are aren’t on the campus team but seem positive and forwarded to HR but this candidate has attended zero campus presentations, had not had a single conversation with an analyst (who would have advised against spamming everyone) there is very low liklihood of an interview as that candidate is way off of norms. If someone replied and is on a team and has offered intros to other team members and is engaged likely suggests something different at the margin.
Will only take a call if the resume is solid. Don’t want to waste either of our times if I don’t think the person has a chance of getting an interview and succeeding.
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Already recruited (have 26SA), but I was told not to include a resume on the first email. I always sent it after the call or in a follow-up.
lol your alums reply?
Yes it better pass the eye test. But re the call, most bankers will focus on your interests section so make sure that stands out.
I would only read the bottom of your resume (interests). Similarly on LinkedIn. If I like, I respond
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