LGBT Investment Banking Conferences - Citi, GS, Barclays, JPM

Hey, I was wondering if anyone has heard back from any of the firms for their LGBT conferences:

Citi Pride Summit
Goldman Sachs Pride Summit
Barclays Bootcamp for corporate finance and Markets
J.P. Morgan Proud to Be

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Citi – The event is next week. Emails went out a while ago. Goldman Sachs – Kids who networked earlier in the semester have been accepted, but haven’t received travel information. General applicants will find out sometime after the application deadline. Barclays – LGBT and female candidates received notification last week. J.P. Morgan – There are two separate events on the same day (Asset Management & CIB). Asset Management emailed everyone last week. HR confirmed preferences/rankings for CIB applicants who interviewed for multiple divisions on Monday. Formal emails went out yesterday with confirmation of attendance due tomorrow.

 
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Good god, more gays in investment banking please. I'm a hetero banker but I love to dance to good music. Hetero bankers by and large can't dance and only want to go to clubs where they can do models and bottles table service and exude preftege. When I want a fun night of good dancing, the gay guys know where to go and how to dance.

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So JPM is all set and done now? After submitting the application it clearly said interviews would be in early November, but wouldn't be the first time they botched those deadlines (participated in BA EA this past spring).

Students were already accepted to GS Pride Summit? Considering the application just closed I doubt accepted, but preference list maybe.

Going to Citi. Did Morgan Stanley. Sophomore so planning on doing the Barclays sophomore program (not Bootcamp).

 

I agree with you Coste for GS. Kinda hard to believe people were already accepted since the applications closed this past Sunday.

 

Honestly call monkey bullshit on that. My friend from Dartmouth who did it last year heard a week or so before the program (it's just like any other LGBT recruiting event - purely based off resume and no interview with the intent of attracting minority/non-core students). No reason for them to have a pref sheet.

Kind of surprised with JPM. Swore they said interviews in early November. But my connection with them isn't the greatest. Have attended three events with ample networking opportunities and I just don't feel any fit with them. Shame because I want it.

@leftcoastmonkey3; what year are you?

 

@Coste. I'm also going to Citi's event this Friday and going to JPM's AM in 2 weeks. I had to interview for JPM. Interview for IB, TTS, and AM. Got invited for TTS and AM, but accepted AM's just because I'm more interested in the markets.

 

Let me clarify about GS. While no one to my knowledge has been officially "accepted," personal emails from bankers/traders heavily involved in LGBT recruiting all but ensure the fact that these students have the green light to attend. As someone who has run the gamut of diversity events and walked away with three IBD offers his sophomore year, I can attest to the fact that a strong resume isn't the only way to get LGBT invites and interviews. More than a handful of the guys you have met or will meet are there because of leveraged connections and/or a pretty face.

As for the sophomore v. junior question, I think it depends on a lot of things. Juniors may outnumber sophomores mainly because they make up a greater percentage of the applicant pool. On the other hand, more seats may have been allotted for juniors in the first place. At some firms, sophomores (and some freshman) are entitled to special programs where they're only stacked up against other sophomores. If interviews are acquired they are generally easier, consisting almost entirely of fit and behavioral questions.

 

Is the JPM IBD event just networking or are there interviews held? The title of the position is "Program: 2015 Corporate & Investment Bank Proud to Be Undergraduate Experience and Interviews"

 

Yes, they sent them out this morning. If you haven't heard anything they may be waiting to hear how many are able to make it before they extend other offers or rejection letters.

 

For those who were at JPM, I hope you had a blast and your interviews went well. My friends and I definitely noticed some new faces and it's great to see more members of the LGBT community interested in finance. I can't speak for what GS will be like next week, but last year it had panelists, a keynote speaker, and a good networking portion at the end. If you didn't get invited to any events this year it's not the end of the world. Just keep networking and take advantage of every opportunity.

 

Try O4U (Out For Undergrad). They hold a conference every year with LGBT professionals coming from some big firms. I would imagine this to be a pretty good networking opportunity.

 
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Name Of ProfitAre you serious? why does it have to matter? it's not cool playing the sex card.

As a white male hetero, I'm completely cool with LGBT playing the LGBT card to help break in. White hetero males like me play the white hetero male card 24/7 just by being who we are in a society that has huge bias in favour of white hetero males.

If you are not cool with people playing the LGBT card, are you also not cool with people playing other networking cards like alumni connections, family friends etc?

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I think there's a difference between networking and networking in an exclusively gay community. I think we should all benefit through networking,but let's avoid the gay/non-gay exclusivity.

Why? People network within all sorts of exclusive networks eg ethnic cultures, synagogues and churches, business schools, sports teams, sports fandom. I struggle to understand why tapping on networks in the LGBT community should be any different.

I've known more than a handful of people who have tapped the hetero community for networking in ways not open to LGBTs (eg I had a girlfriend whose father was big in the Sydney stockbroking community in the early 90s and he got me more than a few opportunities).

Find your network where you can. If you're most comfortable in the LGBT community, that's a sensible place to look for networks you can tap.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 
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I think there's a difference between networking and networking in an exclusively gay community. I think we should all benefit through networking,but let's avoid the gay/non-gay exclusivity.

Dude, haven't you learned yet. It's only wrong when white, straight males do it. Bias and preference are cool for everyone else.

IMO, I find it interesting how your pretty fair and simple statement was met with derision. Basically the entire liberal playback.

 

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