I Will be an investment banking summer analyst this summer at a group that doesn't historically give high FT offers. It's a top group but the FT offers to suck. It's closer to a 60-70% FT offer rate. Any tips from those who survived a group like this and got FT offers?
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Doesnt even seem that low tbh.
1 Outperform your peers (make fewer mistakes, be more responsive, work longer)
2 Be more likable than your peers (more social, chill, etc)
3 Be from a better school than your peers (out of your control now but yes it matters)
I don't think I am from a better school than my peers. from a non-target and others in my class are from a better school (I know because it's a small class of interns [less than 7]) unfortunately. In a virtual work environment, do you think there is any way I can be more social/chill? I was thinking about networking with the group beforehand to put a face to a name, what do you think about that? Right now it seems like my only hope is to be the best version of myself and hope that that's good enough to make the cut (have any tips on that?)
It really is #1...
Higher quality work.
For #2, unless you are super weird, people don't really care
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Work the relationship angle. Suck the ever-living fuck outta the analyst/asssociate that you're staffed with's dick. Ofc your work product can't be trash but working long hours and turning in good stuff alone will not meaningfully tilt the scales in your favor. In fact, even if you fuck up once or twice so long as the analyst and associate are on your side you can be okay.
Will add my two cents and word of caution:
summered at top BB (GS/JPM/MS). Very lean team due to people quitting - Analyst and Associates loved me, enjoyed working, and got me more meaningful work to point where I was working with MD directly at times. Unfortunately this is where my screw-ups came in. Didn't get conversion.
Looked at who got conversion in my team, it was all work product driven and impression of seniors of course holding more weight went against me. I would say make sure you speak to multiple analysts and associates and work with them, quantity of people vouching for you makes a difference vs having 2-3 batting for you and getting resistance from someone more senior.
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