So I am a junior currently studying finance at Georgetown. I have a 3.8 and good internships but none that are finance related. I wanted to know if any boutiques, or any banks at all, are still recruiting for summer positions. Obviously I am a late bloomer and should have gotten on this sooner. Despite that, any advice?
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Did you not get an offer through OCR or something?
No unfortunately I did not, nor did I apply myself as I should have :(. Im pretty much trying to make up for those mistakes now.
Start sending out e-mails and cold calling. I was in the same position and got my SA offer at a tech-focused boutique a few days ago. Responses to e-mails won't always be warm, but as many on WSO have said, if you had to send 200 e-mails, and get rejected 199 times just to have the 200th come through, you'd do it without a second thought if you really want this.
I'm also in a situation where I should start cold-emailing. If you could answer a few questions I have I'd really appreciate it, and it will help the OP too. Did you include your resume in the first email? How did you pick who to email at each boutique, or did you just email HR? Did you explain your situation and skills and ask if they had any positions in the first email, or did you try to build a relationship with the person first?
Thanks!
Thanks Vontropnats, that sounds like good advice. Do you have any advice on how to find which firms to reach out to? I've been looking through this thread: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/regional-boutiques but as its from 2007 some of the lists are outdated. How did you go about cold calling? Thanks so much.
I'm going to write up a post for WSO about landing my SA offer (I have a pretty unconventional background), but here is the template I used for e-mails:
Sent my resume in the first message of every e-mail. I generally picked MDs that went to my school or had an affiliation with it in some manner (target).
Hope this helps y'all.
I was lucky enough to land something very recently as well for the summer, having failed through the traditional methods likely as a result of my unconventional background. If you are wondering about trying to figure out places to approach, you can do searches on FactSet for banks or PE or HF in your area and just start hitting them in order which is kind of what I did.
If you don't have FactSet post or shoot me a PM of what you are looking for and where and I'll send you an excel with the businesses to hit up.
Kind of what I did was starting with trying to find alums on the website that went to my school on the businesses and sending out to them first, then doing the cold emails, but the alum was how I landed my summer job. You may not have time to do that much research so you may want to create a cover letter for each type of business you are trying to enter so that you can make it easier to begin the process.
I can't say whether or not this is the best method, this is just what worked for me when the conventional applications didn't work, and it's too late for those at this point so you gotta hit the HR emails and such.
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