Korean Army Timing in terms of recruiting
Dear WSO,
I am a rising sophomore with internships in search fund and ER. I have worked my ass off to set a right path to my future path. However, as a korean citizen, I have to serve for military in Korea for about 2 years. I am thinking of doing it after successfully transferring to a target (2020 spring or fall semester in sophomore year).
Anyone have experienced this issue or know someone who was in the same shoes? I thought it would be good to hear some advice in WSO as always.
Thanks,
Eagle on Wall Street, pure crickets, that's where I come in. Any of these useful?
I hope those threads give you a bit more insight.
You haven't worked your ass off if you haven't been to the military yet.
I would do it before you graduate, take a school leave of absence and and just put the end date for your eventual graduation. People may see the 2 year gap and ask, but being in the army is a good answer.
Plenty of older people go into IB, have seen Mormons that had to do a mission as well as army vets. You will have no problem recruiting from a target post-military.
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Do it earlier than later, and just make sure it doesn't interfere with timing for your last summer internship. One thing you can do is time your military so that you have 1 extra summer (i.e. you graduate in December instead of May/June). This is what I did
Thanks, how did one extra summer before graduation help you out if not SA job which is available for sophomores? Did you make it through off-cycle opportunities?
I'n not sure I follow your Q - my response on the additional summer was to make the point use the extra summer to your advantage, especially since you are not starting off at a target
For the summers before the one that matters (i.e. post junior summer), my suggestion for you is to try to get one at BB in Seoul because they are generally more loose about school year requirement as long as you go to a top school and nail your interviews - this is because these posts are not for FT conversion the following year
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Most firms value that experience although can be hard to start with kids younger and less mature/experienced. Sometimes easier to go the mba route into banking
Thanks for our input. I'm just wondering, why do you think most firms value the experience? I understand 2 years of army experience is something unique, but I wanna understand why they actually value it.
assuming you're in america, why would you go back to Korea to do military? As long as you don't go back until you're 40 (i think) you don't have to do military service. a bunch of my non-US citizen friends do that
First, I'm back in Korea again because of the coronavirus and not being able to visit my home country without some additional visa work seems like a no to me. Plus, who knows I'll learn something useful from the army?
i can respect that, going to be a long two years though. good luck mate and stay safe in the motherland
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