Great call with a banker, he floated passing my CV along, now silence. Normal?
Recent grad targeting full-time analyst roles. I cold-emailed a banker at a firm I'd love to join and he agreed to a 20-min Zoom. It ran to almost 40 minutes. Good rapport: we talked through his path and the work, and found some common ground outside banking (I offered to look into something for him on that front). Towards the end he mentioned he might be able to pass my CV along.
Same day, I sent a thank-you note with my CV. About 10 days later the firm opened full-time applications, so I applied, emailed him to let him know, asked if he'd be comfortable flagging my application, and passed on what I'd found for him.
No reply since (about 10 days now).
Questions:
1. Is this normal, or does silence after a call like that usually mean he's decided not to help?
2. Could he have flagged it without telling me? Has that happened to anyone here?
3. Should I follow up again? If so, when, and what should I say? He's the only warm contact I have there and I don't want to burn it.
4. Did I misstep by asking him directly to flag the application?
5. Would it be a good idea to send another set of cold emails to people at the firm or is this usually frowned upon?
TL;DR: 40-min call that went great, he floated passing my CV along, I applied and asked him to flag it, about 10 days of silence. Wait, nudge, or move on?
this happened to me recently. 30min call went over to almost 50. he replied to my thank you note and ghosted my follow ups.
didn't even get a second round
Sometimes people like you but once they go back to their team, others say no on your profile, timelines don’t match, they no longer have space for someone else to join, just politics, etc
In these cases, some people just find it easier to move on than to have to give someone the bad news. Or even getting answer can take a while then they get busy with work and just move on if they don’t get a clear answer from recruiting counterparts.
Best advice I can give you is to stop overthinking. Realistically speaking, no one knows and you'll probably never be able to find out what happened unless if you're hired there. I'm assuming you have a strong enough profile for IB, so there's no need to get yourself into a scarcity mindset and think this firm is the start and end of your career. It's just one firm.
You might get an interview with them, you might not. It's only been 10 days. London hiring has also been abysmally slow this year. I wouldn't bother emailing anyone from there again. Just keep on applying and networking across a wide range of investment banks, and I'm sure you'll find a FT role eventually.
Yeah, this makes sense. I'd say I have a good enough profile for IB, but I'm not even getting first-round interviews despite applying broadly. The only interview I've had so far was through networking at a PE shop, and I got dinged after the modelling test (which I thought went quite well, so I was surprised by the rejection, but I guess other candidates just came across as more polished and technical than I did). I'll just have to keep networking and applying for both FT and OC but OCs haven't been opening up as much recently.
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