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I participated in the FT recruiting process at all the banks you listed last Fall, except for Scotia.

  • For Eastern Canada, RBC completely froze out their recruiting pipeline last year, and they didnt hire anybody at the analyst level
  • From what I know, TD & CIBC hired around 3 analysts each last Fall, mainly for their Toronto office (I do not know what staffing decision they made for Montreal, but I haven't heard of anybody getting FT offer -they might have hired 1 person each)

Ivey is indeed one of their target school, as well as McGill and Queens.

I hope it helps

BradZ.

 
BradZI participated in the FT recruiting process at all the banks you listed last Fall, except for Scotia.
  • For Eastern Canada, RBC completely froze out their recruiting pipeline last year, and they didnt hire anybody at the analyst level
  • From what I know, TD & CIBC hired around 3 analysts each last Fall, mainly for their Toronto office (I do not know what staffing decision they made for Montreal, but I haven't heard of anybody getting FT offer -they might have hired 1 person each)

Ivey is indeed one of their target school, as well as McGill and Queens.

I hope it helps

BradZ.

Totally wrong. I would guess ~10-20 analysts each (all Canada)

 
yung_gekko

Totally wrong. I would guess ~10-20 analysts each (all Canada)

Not many firms would go that high, in the best years they probably went up to 10 - 15, but when I was going through the cycle in 2008, the figures I was told for new FT, not offers to come back, CIBC was bringing in 2, TD 6, RBC 3, National Bank 2, Genuity 1.

 

Not sure what they told you, or what you speculated, when you didn't get an offer but the info is pretty inaccurate.

For example: RBC Toronto hired at LEAST six analysts, of which at LEAST two were hired during the fall recruitment.

 

3 analysts each for Toronto? Is this just for the M&A group? I find it hard to believe that all of the industry and M&A groups only hired 3 people...

Btw, how's LBS going? Is it worth it for banking in Canada?

 

Definitely competitive, especially for summer, but like anything else, if you work hard enough it will happen. Also, keep in mind that not obtaining a summer IB job is not the end of the world. Personally, I didn't land a summer IB position but it worked out for full-time.

 

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