Profile evaluation for London Internships (am I screwed?)
Looking to have my profile evaluated:
INSEAD MIM 99th percentile GMAT score -Consulting and Finance club active member
BSc Hons Finance @ Bayes - 2.2 (did badly due to serious family circumstances)
Did badly and tried to turn it around in my Masters.
Internship @ Deloitte, Asset Management fund internship, and Boutique Investment bank internship, all in small EU country.
I have solid technicals and going to amp up my networking. However, I wanted to know my chances of securing an internship or let alone an interview for any EB in London, in order to set my expectations.
Decent profile, you should theoretically have a shot at some good MM and EB. The thing is (i) London is probably the most random recruiting market in the world, (ii) we're in a shitty market situation where plenty of European grads have accumulated 2/3/4+ strong off-cycle internships and keep applying to other internship positions to marginally improve their profile. I would try to avoid playing this internships game and enter the workforce ASAP (even LMM IB, Big 4 Advisory, small credit shop), then try to lateral after 1/2 years into an EB.
Completely off the mark. I know people with similar profiles to OP and they have gotten zero interviews at EBs.
EBs are particularly shitty because Dartmouth runs their processes for most of them (PWP, PJT) or some other shitty external HH (Wiser for EVR). These are biased heavily against MSc students, and with Bayes 2:2 its almost certainly a no go.
Have a look at these EB analyst classes and do a ratio of people with and without an MSc - you'll find that most are European grads with 2/3+ relevant off-cycles under their belts
What does it mean for students that those banks use headhunters like dartmouth for their analyst positions? Do the headhunters reach out to interesting profiles (on e.g. Linkedin) or do you have to contact them as a student?
The only EB dartmouth runs processes for is PWP
close to zero.
source: target MSc, people with better stats than yours (on paper) have gotten 0 rounds at EBs (much less BBs).
Yep screwed. Close to zero chance but not impossible
London recruiting is extremely random. I know many people with even better profiles than you that have not recieved a single interview. Cross your fingers and hope you get a interview basically.
How did you end up choosing INSEAD MiM with a 750+ GMAT if your main targets are london EBs? Would have been better off with HEC or any UK MFin..
Money stuff :/
In theory, yeah I should’ve done that. At the time it was the only real option for my masters. If I had waited another year post my gap year, I would’ve just been sitting on my ass and not got any interviews
0 chance at most banks. Your 2:2 is the killer here, most grad offers demand a minimum 2:1 (written in the offer itself) for your background check.
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