Getting Jobs in Late Fall/Spring?
I have not faired too well during this season's on campus job recruit. I'm curious how much harder it is to get a decent job outside of campus recruiting (i.e., in the spring and late fall). I'm a Senior at HYP with a 3.6 GPA and no work experience.
Unfortunately, it will probably be difficult. You will have to be very proactive in contacting places/alumni at smaller firms (preferably PE/VC/hedge funds) if no others are coming on campus.
Will HYP undergrad help differentiate me now since I won't be competing with as many people from my same group?
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If you have no work experience whatsoever I don't know why someone would hire you full-time. Try to get an internship or contract work. What is it you want to do anyway?
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They don't take senior internships I thought (at least that's what everyone else has told me). At this point I would take anything, but presumably somebody would hire me because I am well-qualified academically and have exhibited leadership skills as an undergrad (apart from no work exp).
I have friends who are now interning or on temp contract with banks because they weren't able to get a full-time graduate offer. They are hoping to transition into FT analyst program after this, or, if that fails, they will wait it out for the next recruiting cycle and apply with one more thing on their resume - a blank space on your resume is not very appealing.
I don't know where your friends work but plenty of banks hire interns or at least temp hires that are seniors, graduates, or even people with several years of work experience but want to make a career switch to finance.
Situation like yours calls for aggressive networking, in my opinion. If you know anyone working in the industry, give them a ring and see if their employer is looking to make off-cycle hires of any sort, and hopefully they can forward your resume to someone senior. While HYP is impressive, banks are likely to choose a non-HYP student/graduate with past internships in the industry over HYPs with none.
Good luck.
How long is the duration on a temp hire/internship? Are we talking BB's? How much do temp hires/interns pay?
Can you take an extra semester at school to graduate next December? Tack on some garbage minor or specialization to justify it. Then you can also look at getting an internship this summer that hopefully leads into a full time offer.
That's pretty much not a possibility. Is that really how desperate my situation is?^
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