Senior Off Season Recruiting vs. SA 2027 Internship

I am a current senior recruiting for IB and corporate banking analyst positions. My previous internship experience is in ER for a boutique asset management firm and in business development for a startup AI company. 

I go to a non target with a limited alumni networking in banking. I have been aggressively networking for a couple months, but have had very little traction with non-alumni and have not received any interviews yet. I am dead set on breaking into IB and would also accept any corporate banking or commercial banking roles.

I am curious if it would make more sense to continue my current recruiting process and hope to land a role now, and/or continue recruiting when off season when those applications come out; or if I should be focus on recruiting for SA 2027 internships, and then move to ad hoc full time recruiting.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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