Summer Analyst Recruiting - How would I pursue this?

I made the mistake of accepting an offer for a Big 4 Internship during the Spring of 2008. This was a while ago, before I decided that I wanted to go into banking. I realize that I am screwed for recruiting as most of it goes down during the spring. What should I do?

1) I heard that there was accelerated recruiting during the fall for people who are studying abroad. How would I go about pursuing this? I do not have many banking contacts, and I go to a semi-target. My resume is otherwise pretty good.

2) Do you think it would work out if I would just take days off my internship to do interviews? Do all the banks generally schedule their interviews close to each other? What about superdays - could I schedule them on weekends? How much flexibility is there with this?

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

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1) If you get in touch with the recruiters early, they can typically work you in earlier. I had some friends who were going abroad early their second semesters and so would miss the whole interview season, and shifted them up to correspond more with full-time interviews.

2) Interviews will typically be one after the other, located in time by prestige. That is (at least at my school; they're all a little different) the big BBs will go first (falling, for us, at the end of our intersession break - that's a great way to spend a vacation), then there might be a few days, then the next round of funds and smaller banks, and so on. Often will have multiple different banks in one day; my best was 3 interviews with 2 banks in one day, but know of plenty of people who hit 3 banks and several more interviews in a day.

 

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