Superday Conflict/Planning

So, spent a lot of time learning from various posters here, but need some insight on how to handle the final round/superday part of the FT recruiting process.

I'm interviewing with various MM firms and Botiques, and have been getting slammed on conflicting super days. Of the five Superdays, I've had two firms schedule on the same friday, and two schedule on the same tuesday. None were willing to offer an alternative time to interview.

So, after having to choose between two firms...twice.. in the past week, I'm getting fairly gunshy about scheduling another superday on the 12th before I hear back from two remaining firms that would be my top choice.

Any input on best next steps? Do I just set up the superday and then deal with the conflict if it arrises?

The easy answer would be to get a provisional idea of the dates from the remaining two firms, but I'm not sure I can get that information before the deadline for the firm thats already extended final rounds.

Any help/advise/insight would be hugely appreciated.

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Bankerella- Very aware that it's not a accident from a HR/recruiting perspective. I gues my concern from a applicant perspective is how to minimize the chance that I'm burning bridges.

If I commit to a superday, and then get an offer to interview with a firm thats a much better match, I'd have a hard time turning down the better choice because of a social/profesisonal obligation to the first interview.

On the other hand, I'd like to not be in a situation where I'm telling a bank that those airline tickets and hotel room that they just booked are useless because I'm jumping to another opportunity. It makes me look sloppy, and I'm sure it hurts future applicants from my school.

 

Go to the superdays at the firms you're most interested in even if that means canceling on a superday where flights/hotels have been booked. Recruiting is a cost for these firms to bear and the money they spent booking your travel is negligible in the grand scheme of things unless maybe it's a tiny boutique. You won't be burning any bridges as long as you politely notify them asap.

A way to think about it is they understand putting their superdays on the same day as others and being 100% not flexible about it will lead to situations like this. If they didn't want to get burned on travel costs they would be more flexible.

 
Whiskey5I would say you should go to the super day you first committed.
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