Timing of Housing

Does anybody know if there is any downtime between training and full-time employment, specifically for a Chicago office?

The reason I ask is because I'm looking around for some housing options; however, I'm having trouble figuring out the optimal move-in date. My training begins sometime around June/July in NY and I believe I would start working around August. Should I just sign a lease and move-in before I leave for training? In my opinion, I feel like that would be a waste of ~2 months worth of rent.

I would like to move-in as soon as training ends; however, I don't know whether I'll have enough time to move-in to the new apartment at that time. I'm hoping training ends on a Friday and we get the weekend off?

Could you all provide some insight?

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Been wondering the EXACT same thing. I've heard that with my firm, FT starts practically the day after training ends. Can any FT analysts provide insight?

 

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