Graduated from top ivy with no offer- what now?
Just graduated from a top ivy league school (majored in finance) and graduated 2 weeks ago, with no offer in hand. Had a really shitty time at my boutique consulting firm over the summer, plus some other life stuff that made me super unmotivated and depressed during the recruiting season. Realized this way too late, and now I'm really late to the FT recruiting game. Have a 3.2 gpa, and pretty subpar internships so far. What should my next steps be? I don't have the money for stuff like MSF programs so I'm really just trying to get a decent job anywhere in finance or consulting. I know its not the end of the world, but seeing all my classmates get basically the best positions on the Street and me having nothing is super depressing.
Commission in the military and kill it (and terrorists) for four years. This is a ticket to a top B School and top job in consulting or finance
This may sound like odd advice, but I recommend not spending tons of time reading posts on places like WSO about ideal career tracks of going from BB IB to PE so you can get $1mm in comp by age 30; those threads will just make you feel worse and frankly are not how the real world works for like the majority of people in the US.
Apply for ALL kinds of jobs, I guarantee your first job won't be your last job. Maybe you won't make to the "street" right away, but this will hardly define your career. I think many said it before, if you are so motivated, work in a corp job for a few years, go get an MBA and start then.
The worst thing you can do is take too long to do something, it's bad to lose momentum. I think your Wharton network should be your priority in terms of how to find an opportunity, just be wide open to positions.