Clarification on IB Recruiting after Reclass

Hi everyone, 

To give some context, I submitted an app for a couple IB roles in January of this year as a "why not" without doing the formal recruiting process thinking I wasn't actually going to go into IB. Yes I know, silly. Now that I am looking to go with the official process with a gap year, should I email HR of the firms I previously submitted applications to for clarification that I am now in the 2028 summer recruiting cycle? I'm worried that I am registered as part of the 2027 summer recruiting cycle or hit the limit on the number of applications per year and therefore get my application skipped over.

Thanks

2 Comments
 

skip the hr email, you are overthinking that part. just withdraw the january application in the portal and apply fresh when 2028 opens. each cycle is a new req so an old app usually does not block you, but a stale not-hired sitting in workday can get auto screened, so withdrawing is the clean move. application limits reset per cycle, and no human is ever going to connect the two.

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