Coming into junior year OCR at a target school with a 3.6 GPA, no relevant finance experience (just ops at a financial services company), and mediocre-decent leadership activities. The pond is so damn big that this little fish might not make it into the traditional "track" of BB SA or elite boutique SA, grab a return offer, and be done...
What is the next best option? I've had friends tell me I would definitely get interviews with smaller lesser known banks, which can result in getting to work at smaller private equity shops? I'm not a business major--would these small banks provide good learning and training opportunities? How is the pay? Exit opps?
Would it be a better idea to try to do a corporate finance role at a major company or does this ruin chances for BB FT? Is BB FT recruiting now such a thing of the past that I should just not even think about it if I don't get a BB SA offer?
I'm still trying to discover my interests, but ideally in a few years I'll be in PE, HF, or having a nice cushy business development job at a well-known company on the west coast or something, and hopefully attending a Top 7 MBA school after that.
Thanks in advance everybody.
If you have a 3.6 at a target IMO no excuse to not break into a quality IB firm- try some MM firms that might still be recruiting, though honestly it is getting late in the game. I would look at corporate finance positions as well as email some PE shops to see if they might be willing to take you on for the summer.
Getting late in the process for the summer. I recommend getting the best corp fin/bus dev/strategy internship you can and network into FT IB recruiting. It's not as expansive as SA recruiting but it's doable. I went from S&T during SA to IB for FT, while switching firms.
What makes both of you say its getting late in the game? All of my school's resume drop deadlines were today or yesterday. Citi isn't even until 5 days from now. I go to an Ivy....is the timeline somehow different here?
What's a list of quality MM IB shops? I know Jefferies probably counts...but most of the quality non-BB banks I know of are elite boutiques such as Lazard, Evercore, Moelis, etc..
Thanks a lot everyone
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