Staffers influence on SA Offers
So through my networking experiences so far, alumni tend to give me the email of the "staffer" (typically a VP) in their group, since he/she is in charge of the recruiting process. I wanted to know how much of an influence a staffer tends to have when deciding on which candidates get offers post superday. Does the staffer receive all the feedback from the MD's, and then decides who gets offers? Any insight would be appreciated!
I would say they are probably the most influential in the group besides a very involved/active MD (which is quite rare). When I was networking, getting someone to actually vouch for me to a staffer (VP) is as good as it gets because if you meet with him and he ends the conversation and says "send me your resume"- you will 100% be pushed to HR, at that point it is up to HR to determine whether to give you an interview and most likely you will jump to superday (if its a structured FT recruiting process for example) or you will get a formal phone interview with some analysts, after which you can move up to the MD level for interviews and if they all mutually agree about bringing you on and then thats it- you got the offer- btw this latter process is the "informal" process you see some people write about on WSO (its much better than the somewhat arbitrary superdays where you go up against random kids from other banks).