Recruiting - How to Get Interest From Selective Undergraduate Programs?
I volunteered to help candidate screen at my Midwest MM bank and noticed that we really don't get a lot of the more "prestigious" schools (Northwestern, Vanderbilt, USC, Tufts, etc.) applying. I don't mind IU, but it feels like every third application is a Kelly student and then it goes downhill from there to the Ohio States of the world.
To those who work with your bank's recruiting process, how do you get in the mix at semi-target schools?
As a Vandy student, please don’t group us with Tufts and USC
vandy is only better then tufts
I don’t know what happened to Vanderbilt. I’ve met some older alum (35+) who are just hands down some of the smartest people I’ve ever met. The younger graduates and undergrads are dumb as rocks. Went on two dates with vandy girls too…both ridiculously stupid. Safe to say Vanderbilt is no longer the Harvard of the south.
If midwest is Chicago then there should be a decent washu population especially if its Lincoln,Blair or Baird.
As a fellow WashU grad, thank you for carrying water for the whole school on this forum. No, not one of those which is why I can't get WashU undergrads to apply. You guys are driving me nuts... I want to have kids in the pipeline to show favoritism to.
I'm not in WUIB or even on campus yet(gap) but I think if you came to campus or even just told WUIB you're recruiting you'd have atleast some serious applicants. From what I've seen there are a lot of people who ''recruit'' but kinda half-ass it so the number of serious prospects is really low compared to peer schools and almost all of them go for NYC. I know one guy who turned down GS Industrials Chicago for a boutique in NY so you might have to go out of your way to get kids to apply to a midwest MM, I would love the role tho...
-bless and goodluck my guy.
reach out to the finance clubs on those campuses and offer information sessions or just let them know you guys are recruiting - that stuff usually gets email blasted to all the club members and usually reaches the other finance clubs on campus as well. I'd add UMich to your list of schools you should be trying to recruit from as a midwest bank.
also, you have to accept that as an MM bank in the midwest, you're gonna be looked at as a "safety" firm for a lot of those kids from the t25s that are involved in finance clubs etc. I'd rather have the hungry kid from Ohio State than the Northwestern kid who's only there because they couldn't land an NYC offer...
Excellent advice. Not fun to be constantly training new hires because your analysts bolt the second they finish their first year to go to NY. I would prioritize people with local family ties to the area, as well as those who are maybe a bit late to recruiting or don't have the profile to land a top firm.
It's not fun to play second fiddle by giving someone an offer and having every single kid use that offer to accelerate NY or BB/EB Chicago processes (source: been there). Your target hire shouldn't necessarily be the guy with a 3.9 and three prior IB internships, he is more than likely going to maximize his options with larger firms - as he should. Not to pick out Ohio State specifically, but I know some REALLY smart alums from there who are killing it, you may just need to find the diamond in the rough and train them up a bit more.
Do info sessions (even virtual is fine) and meet-and greets at all of your "target" schools. Get a resume drop set up too.
Went to UChicago and at a Chicago-based BB/EB. From my exp, UChicago and Northwestern students almost always go for NYC (unless they’re from Chicago) and consider the Chicago banks as safeties, as the above commenter said.
seconded lol, one of my family friends moms said my northwestern friend cried after not getting any NYC groups and he's from chi
Your family needs new friends.
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