Starting In December | Looking To Join Previous Analyst Class
Hi everyone, looking for advice in asking HR to allow me to join the analyst class starting in 2 months. (Would also like to know if anyone has ever done this / heard of anyone who has jumped an analyst class)
I am currently interning at a BB and I will be starting full-time in Dec./Jan. (for financial reasons, I can't wait for the following summer - my bank has also approved of me starting early) After completing my summer internship, I will have both the SIE and Series exams completed by the time I begin. This will allow me to jump right into the thick of things, and start to bring value to the team quickly (albeit nominal value).
Since I am starting early and will have completed all qualifications to work, I would like to join the analyst class in front of me. I will have completed my internship with the firm, so I will have familiarity with the work, firm, and people.
With that being said, I completely understand why the firm would want to hold me back until the analyst class shows up in the following summer (not wanting to set precedent, worry about falling too far behind, benefits of having me help mentor the following analyst class).
I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how I could approach this with the team/firm/hr. Do you recommend I get senior individuals to help pull for me (VP/D/MD)? Is this something I should bring up at the end of the summer? Is this even possible?
Any advice would be extremely helpful!
I would love to be wrong, but no shot. The rest of the class you want to join has almost 6 months on the desk doing actual work - meanwhile all you've done is just been an intern and have your licensing exams complete. Respectfully, you haven't done a single day as an actual analyst with any form of actual responsibility. Being an intern doesn't count for much.
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Whether or not they’d allow it (spoiler they probably won’t) you don’t want this.
You’ll be compared against people with vastly more experience and this feels like the fast track to a bottom bucket rating. Even if you’ve interned and done your exams, the first 6 months learning curve is really steep and no one will want to staff you. You’ll get put on bad staffings, not learn anything, and be compared against far more experienced people at your first review cycle (which will come after only 6 months in this case).
In the end, I don’t see that much upside. Way better to get an early start and fast track to top bucket, I would also bet a top bucket first year analyst is better than a bottom bucket 2nd year and base difference isn’t enough to matter
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