Need advice from experience analyst and associates.
Hi all I am a first year and I started around 2 months ago, and I have made a lot of mistake, really dumb ones but also mistakes I should have been making I guess because I feel lost. Sometimes the associate does alot of the work on the deck but than I guess it is expected? Not sure where I am at. Legit feeling lost alot of my time is doing comps, data gathering and one off slides Any advice given? I am slow on PowerPoint as well , I guess like what are expectations of a first year, and like will it matter if I fuck up a lot and than I guess I improve a lot after mid reviews or like I just improve significantly once I get hold of things? Essentially does my mistake now determine my bucket placement in June? What are things I really shouldn’t do / avoid
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If you are not actively seeking feedback and continue to make mistakes... yeah, you'll probably not be ranked well.
1st year ramp is tough. Ask a lot of questions, seek out constructive feedback, and utilize prior materials as much as you can. Overall, if you make a slide and can't explain what it's saying... no one else will be able to. Keep working hard and good luck
It’s important to take on a large volume work when you first start. The fact that your associate is taking on most of the work is a red flag. Assuming you learn from your mistakes and actively improve and don’t repeat the same ones over and over, then you need a large volume of work in order to become consistently, visibly better over time. Just doing one random slide here and there and fucking it up each time isn’t going to result in any progress.
You need to make a deck, someone needs to review it and tell you you completely fucked it up and made 30 mistakes. Then you need to feel bad about it and fix every single one yourself (and make sure you volunteer to do this every time). Then in 1 month you need to put together the same or very similar set of materials, but this time you will only make 5 mistakes because you learned the pain of staying up until 2 am fixing your own shit quality work. Then 2 months later it will be 1 or 0 mistakes and moving forward it will remain at a low to 0 level.
Your progress is choppy because your workload is choppy. Analysts that work very hard for their first few months (let’s say first 1-6 months), although they get memed on this website, do make a lot of mistakes quicker and hence learn from those mistakes quicker and become actually productive members of the team quicker.
Find a way to increase your utilization and raise your hand for more work and responsibility. You need reps. Make sure you’re improving on every single staffing without fail and that you’re never repeating mistakes. End of year ranking is a complex topic with a lot of determining factors; don’t worry about that right now, focus on getting more work and becoming better.
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