How to apply to Springs when I have a 2025 summer

After managing to convert my 2024 Spring Week, I have managed to land a 2025 SA role at a top bank (MS/LAZ/JPM). I want to continue to recruit for springs in 2025 whilst I have my summer in the same year for multiple reasons.

> I may decide to do a masters and therefore cannot start FT in 2026

> I want a back-up in case I do not convert

> Extra money during spring holiday would be nice

I hated competing against 2nd years, but I guess I need to continue the vicious cycle. How do I go about recruiting for springs again? Should I remove my experience from LinkedIn and my CV? Should I change my graduation date to 2027 etc. 

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hey, im sorta in the same situation as u (swapping uni from a semi/non target to target so re-starting first year) I also have a return offer but in big4 financial advisory so gonna try use springs this yr to really target IB.

I think it should be ok to put ur spring on ur CV as long as u explain in interviews why if they ask(probably the im doing a masters/year abroad excuse is best)

 

Maybe one of the silliest posts ever. You have an amazing summer offer and should do everything you can to convert it to FT. I cannot think for the life of me why you would needlessly delay a FT job, and a great one at that, for a master's degree in horsing around.

 

I find people who do this incredibly strange and it would make me less likely to support a candidate getting a return offer if I knew they were doing this.

 

I find people who do this incredibly strange and it would make me less likely to support a candidate getting a return offer if I knew they were doing this.

This may be a hot take, but in this market I really would not care. At my BB last summer we had to turn down some very competent interns, some of whom I personally vouched for, simply for headcount reasons. I was also recently laid off. If I had some type of mechanism available to me that would give me a guarantee of joining a competitor in just a year from now and taking a slight title downgrade to ASO2 in the case that I was laid off then I would most definitely use that fucking mechanism. Lateral market is dead, Layoffs everywhere, Return offers are bad, the job market is dead. Being laid off recently, after having been mid/top bucket my entire career really showed me the perspective that the whole loyalty to firms thing is absolute BS. You are a mere number to these firms until you make VP, and this is especially emphasised in a market like this. Would not fault a kid for doing a spring to get a backup summer internship, if anything it's probably a pretty smart thing to do in an environment like this. Even in the case of reneging, I still really would not care. Summer interns and AN1s are extremely easy and quick to replace so it would not really affect me or my team. If this was a normal market, maybe my perspective would be slightly different.

 

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