What profile do i need to get into the competitive/desireable spring weeks in London?
I will likely apply for next year. I will be a bit older than the usual people there, but I dont care. I just want to land an actually good role to make the work pay off. by the time I apply to spring weeks (autumn), I hope to have more internship for Q2/Q3 secured to finish the gap year (I hope I can land MM IB).
My profile:
German Target / LDN Semi-Target [1st class honors equivalent]
-> Class of 2025 (Gap year + Two years masters planned)
Internship - B4 Mergers & Acquisitions - Q1/26
Internship - B4 Debt Advisory & Restructuring - Q4/25
Internship - Transaction Services - Q1/25
Internship - B4 Audit - Q1/24
Member of Investment Club at Home University
Extracurricular - Tutoring Children
Languages: German (native), English (C1), Korean (Topik level 3), Chinese (HSK 2)
Could this profile be enough for the springweeks of some of the big players (CVP/EVR/PJT/LAZ/GS/MS/JPM)?
-> If not, what would my profile be missing?
Your profile would be missing luck.
Poor UKers having to compete with this.
Doesn't even matter for Spring Weeks, you'd be surprised how random the process is tbh. I would not be surprised if a first year with no experience gets the spring week over this guy.
Not sure if there’s actually any banks that accept Master students tho cuz SWs is only available for first year students in a 3-year course or 2nd year students in a 4-year course (with Master included)
Oh, I am not sure either. I think i read about it being okay, as long as graduation fits into the recruiting timeline.
But actually in either way, you should definitely try recruiting for summer classes as well cuz it’s much less random compared to spring weeks
virgin 25 year old europoor with 5 internships (No Offers)
vs
gigachad 19 year old UK diversity (PJT+JPM+EVR+MS+LAZ)
The real question is why the 25-yr old isn't applying for summers
Why dont just do both? We aöways talk about maxiizing our chances through networking, recruiting events, possible fits into any diversity category... why dont maximize here too, if many SA are also converted spring weeks?
Not trying to be rude here but you shouldn’t be going for spring weeks. These are essentially extended insight days for people a few months out of school. I’m not sure what continental Europeans obsession is with stacking internships but with this apply to summers.
Others have said the same, but 9/10 times HR will pick a 19 year old Oxford medieval history undergrad over this profile for spring weeks- they aren’t really intended for masters students with a list of internships under their belt
Why shouldnt he?
I know several people who did exactly that. Not everyone has the financial freedom to go study at a UK target and as these schools are preferred, they have to compensate otherwise, especially if you are non-diversity and maybe even working class.
Why shouldn`t he be maximizing his chances going there to maybe get a return, when a large amount of SA ared getting in through that?
Oh & apart from that, in Germany stacking internships is very common. You usually do Audit -> TAS -> MM -> EB/T2 -> BB. Currently this is even harder, with the market being shit. Many people get to MM with 3-4 Internships (Audit, TAS, SC IB like Clearwater).
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