List of banks recruiting on a rolling basis?

Hi there! I am applying for full-time IB roles in Investment Banking Division at London Office. I know some banks put it explicitly that they recruit on a rolling basis rather than wait until the deadline passed to review. Once spots filled, no more app is acceptable. I know Barcap is one of them. I would really appreciate if any of you could let me know some banks you know, who do/don't recruit on a rolling basis so I would finish their app first/last. Thanks, appreciate!

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Just get the apps done early. Once your CV and cover letter is sorted, the marginal effort for each app is next to zero. Do you really believe that people let CVs and applications just pile up before starting to review them? HR wants to leave the office at 5pm. Also, as hard as it is to believe in this market, competition for good candidates (who typically submit their apps early) is still high, and banks want to lock them in early on in the season.

If you actually want to be tactical with timing, what is probably more useful is to send your first apps to the shops you are less interested in joining. Just to get in gear for interviewing.

 
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Just get the apps done early. Once your CV and cover letter is sorted, the marginal effort for each app is next to zero. Do you really believe that people let CVs and applications just pile up before starting to review them? HR wants to leave the office at 5pm. Also, as hard as it is to believe in this market, competition for good candidates (who typically submit their apps early) is still high, and banks want to lock them in early on in the season.

If you actually want to be tactical with timing, what is probably more useful is to send your first apps to the shops you are less interested in joining. Just to get in gear for interviewing.

Good to know but thing is cca half of banks have not yet published offers - how to access some potential hiring which would take place "off the record"?
 

I think you can probably guess that the answer to this is networking. Not sure how common it is now (since FT hiring in Europe has been pretty much shut down over the last couple of years) - there used to be a decent amount of fast-track processes for BBs, but these were generally targeted at SAs with FT offers looking to move to another bank.

Other than that, it'll be applications through normal channels, and I would try to network with banks to figure out how many FT places (outside of retuning interns) are actually available.

 
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thewaterpiper

I think you can probably guess that the answer to this is networking. Not sure how common it is now (since FT hiring in Europe has been pretty much shut down over the last couple of years) - there used to be a decent amount of fast-track processes for BBs, but these were generally targeted at SAs with FT offers looking to move to another bank.

Other than that, it'll be applications through normal channels, and I would try to network with banks to figure out how many FT places (outside of retuning interns) are actually available.

Yes I guessed that, asked some people at Moelis and BofA London (who have not published advertisements yet), nothing such as accelerated this year according to them. Last year almost all FT classes in London got already filled with SA in the City (e.g. BofA and PWP), so the question may come a little bit awkward to the questioned people.
 
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Would it say explicitly in the bank's website that their FT spots are all filled? I know JP Morgan does that. For other banks, if they have the available FT position shown under search criteria, does that mean there is available spot of that?

It is not that JP does not recruit or have all FT spots filled - they fill their spots during the year rather with interns (fall, winter, spring...). They clearly say it on their careers site: we get our IB FT only from the internship program.

Many banks put advertisements without any underlying position to be filled: - either they publish before SA finish and when they publish, they are not sure they will be able to fill FT class with SA class (which usually happens nowadays) - or by default they show in application forms all divisions operating in each office, no matter if those offices do/don't have vacancies - or the most frequent case, and for bank- and talent-competition reasons, is that they pretend to be hiring but they do not hire for real (BofA last year confirmed confirmed during career fairs to be recruiting, although a friend and former SA there said all FT class got filled with him and other SA - cca 20 offers out of 60 SA...) Sources: friends working there, friends previously applied and informal contacts with HR teams

 

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