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eloquence · Accepted Answer

Any chance you can extend graduation at this late hour..? December would help you land something but you really need to hustle.

Guessing this is far more of a timing issue than experience. Those people who got in likely signed as sophomores with 1 internship and then were basically good to go. If you miss the boat on SA recruiting, you have a 1 or 2-week recruiting window to land FT opportunities... tough spot.

I think you need to drop the IB or even big company aspirations right now and just find a job in finance if you can't extend graduation.

eloquence · Answer

I mean BO is not great, but if you get 3+ months post grad and have no job you are going to be in a pretty bad spot recruiting wise. Realistically BO even recruits 6+ months out so I would aim for really small companies that don't have a formal recruiting process that happened months ago

I would target tiny (like 10-30 people) IB/PE shops if you're not already... startups you could do finance at... literally anyone on LinkedIn hiring a finance analyst...

WalkMeThroughaDCF · Answer

Any role honestly, just need to get back in the game and will then figure. Not having luck from HH, not sure why though. Do you have any opportunities you could point me to?

Recruiters / HH are largely a waste of your time and rarely do more than give you empty promises. Their attention quickly shifts once the next wave of laid off bankers flood the street, pushing you further down their interest pile.

WSO_Cubes · Answer

Renewables project finance/structured finance/capital markets roles at developers. Look up Invenergy, Clearway, Intersect Power, RWE, etc.

There's a lot of demand for renewables finance people right now and a lot of firms are happy to train people who have a few years of experience. However, comp is a haircut to banking, higher than corp dev tho.

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