How should I proceed to get a SA offer?

Hi everyone.

Im a freshman at a non target majoring in accounting and finance. My gpa is a 4.0.

During my freshman year I was convinced that I wanted to go into consulting. I tried to leverage every opportunity to best position myself into working at a management consulting firm. At first I attended nearly every networking event offered by my school finance club to speak to professionals in the industry. I met professionals from Accenture, the company I was interested in, and even got a mentor from there as well. Then I joined SEO Edge and was placed under consulting as my primary track and ib as secondary.

However, I recently realized that I was more interested in investment banking and wanted to do it as a career. When I was a part of Jpm's freshmen experience 3 months ago, I enjoyed learning about the divisions within investment banking especially m&a. I decided to do a hire due for jpm last month for a 2019 sa role but I'm not sure if I got it.

Right now I have an internship at a small accounting firm that teaches me bookkeeping, tax, payroll and financial management. I believe that this would be useful down the line for future sa interviews.

But now that I've changed Im not sure if I'm too late in the recruiting season. Seo partners with top firms but I feel as if I've exceeded the window for them to send my resume. What do you think?

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Freshman experience was a great start, as is your internship in accounting. You are totally fine, BBs hire only a handful of sophomores but that process is usually later (structured sophomore efforts are likely starting now into the fall, sophomores hired through junior process is rare)

Don't get burnt out on recruiting chasing a sophomore internship, it's your junior summer that matters and you're 8-9 months away from that recruiting season. Continue making connections and learning about the industry, find something relevant for next year even if it's with a smaller firm, and you will head into the important sophomore spring well-prepared.

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Ok thats good to hear.

I plan to apply for more early insight programs during the fall. Also, I'll check out some big 4 opportunities within assurance to get some transferrable skills for investment banking.

 

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