How To "Maintain" Relationships w/ People You Worked With/Interviewed by
Everyone always tells people on here to "maintain relationships" with people you interned with, worked with, or even had a Superday with... But how exactly are you supposed to do that without coming across annoying/desperate? Do you just send people who you worked with emails every once in a while or something? I just find it a bit weird and think they'd find it annoying? I mean, how many interns have they seen come and go, how many people have they been interviewed by etc... I mean, I tried by emailing like 2 Analysts one of which I worked with, another who was in my team for tips and advice, and neither responded...
So what's the deal? Send off an email every once in a while or what? Who should I keep in touch with, Associates/VPs/Directors?
Would appreciate tips!
This is for the UK btw, in case there are any cultural nuances to consider between how it works in America and how it works here
Thank you!
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Interviewed by isn't a relationship IMO and I would consider it straight up weird if someone kept checking in with me in that situation. Totally fine and even advantageous to circle back into their inbox if they have another role down the line, but the person will just think it's annoying if you continually email them after meeting once.
My 2 cents - grab coffee occasionally (yearly, maybe twice a year) with people you used to work closely with (likely juniors, maybe a senior if you really worked closely together) instead of just firing off random emails for the sake of it. I'm happy to grab coffee or lunch with people from a few years ago, but there is usually an ask involved and most people aren't just keeping up with a ton of people for the sake of keeping up.
Also emailing for tips and advice is kind of strange. I would bring your efforts way down especially if you're just an intern. If you work closely with an analyst for a year, they leave, and you eventually want to grab coffee - that is something you keep up with. But otherwise I wouldn't harass these people just to say you kept in touch with them.
Okay, that's what I thought - just wanted to get clarification because no one is ever explicit in what they mean by "keep in touch" with people. Thought the superday thing was weird, must have been uninformed people making that comment then.
Just to clarify, I emailed specifically for tips on group placement i.e., what groups to go for, which to avoid, bcos they had done the internship before (I'm doing another internship at the same bank, different division)
Thanks for the info. So maintaining relationships w/ people is more of a thing at the Analyst level then not so much Intern level? Just wanna make sure I'm not not doing something that's expected
If anyone helped you out a ton with recruiting fine to ask them for lunch or coffee. Otherwise I'd just let it be.
Makes more sense on the group placement, that is fine to do. Hard to say why they didn't reply, although a lot of IB analysts are kind of jaded and not necessarily looking to help - more than likely nothing personal
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