Odds of Landing an IB role with STEM Designation in NY
Heading to NY to do a Master in Finance (STEM-designated, 36 months OPT). Finance background in PM and Wealth management but mostly entrepreneurial, founded and ran a few businesses with 450k+ revenue but no traditional IB analyst stint. Swiss citizen, turned down an London Business School offer for a program with a stronger US visa/placement angle.
How much does the lack of formal IB experience and non US citizen actually hurt for full-time analyst recruiting, versus the entrepreneurial background and STEM OPT runway helping offset it? Trying to calibrate expectations before I start networking hard.
Maybe, it's a tough market. I just don't realistically see why you'd want to. Your background is clearly really strong in PWM and such, so you'd likely make more over the long term there while also working way less hours. Unless you have some very specific goal in mind, idk why you'd pick IB here
Long term i'd like to break into VC, PWM isn't really that interesting to me. But fair point, I think it may be quite difficult to break into as a foreign student. VC is also just 10x more interesting in the US than in Europe, to my understanding there really aren't that many open positions here.
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