Target School Recruiting Teams
People have told me that recruiting teams at targets consist primarily of analysts, but are there also associates and people from HR? And among analysts, are they mostly people who just graduated (1st year analysts)? Finally, how large are the recruiting teams at West Coast targets (Stanford, Cal, UCLA), and are a significant of them business frat alum who just graduated in the last few months?
Thanks in advance.
What do you mean by "recruiting team"? The people who screen résumés, the interviewers or both?
I was under the impression there was one set of people who did both resume screens and interviews. Not sure if I'm right.
So you typically only see 3-4 first year analysts (at your school)? Any idea if other target schools' recruiting teams also consist of mostly non-first year years?
Does this mean the resumes get divided up unevenly (analysts get more than the rest of the group)? Or do you mean everyone gets the same number of resumes, but analysts are typically the most outspoken?
Also, do recruiters look at resumes online (just open up the files students send) or does someone print them all out?
Usually a recruiting team consists of a "jr. captain" (analyst) and a head person (MD usually). They work with an HR person (who usually is in charge of a few schools), but depending on the school, you may have a good mix based on who waants to get involved. On our team, we have 2 MDs, 3 SVPs, 2 VPs, 1 associate, and 7 analysts (1st/2nd years).
As far as resume screening goes, the pack goes out to the whole group, but it's usually the 1st/2nd years who give the most opinion. Everyone submits their "choices" for 1st round interviews/alternates/etc. and HR goes through, tallies them up and usually we'll sit down and have a convo about it and agree on a list.
So what role do other alums who are not part of the recruiting team play?
For example, I pretty much have seen all the alums from Lehman Brothers who came back for recruiting events last year. I didn't get a good vibe from them.
Let's say hypothetically I hit it off with another Lehman MD who didnt come back last year. -What's the best that he can do for me? Forward my resume back to the "recruiting team?" -If the firm has an official recruiting team for my school, there doesn't seem to be much reason to network with people outside the recruiting team does it? Take my previous example, the other MD doesnt seem to be able to help much.
Of course the MD can talk the HR into interviewing you.
Why the hell does any of this matter? If they print it out or look at it online? Are you fucking serious?
Resumes have an overall different feel/appearance when in different formats (Word, PDF, and printed out), at least for me. I'd prefer it if recruiters read resumes in PDF because they appear the most professional in that context.
So send your resume as a pdf.
Lol. I'm with ideating - ridiculous. Content is content. But if you are curious, usually it's easier to print out and read. And usually HR pdfs everything for us.
As for who reads it -- the whole pack goes to everyone on the team. usually analysts spend more time reading them (if they have time) just because chances are they can give better insight to a candidate (knows him/her from different extracurrics, etc.).
being part of a recruiting team is completely up to the individual. There are more than 7 ibd analysts from alma mater at my bank but only those chose to help with recruiting. My bank has a different cap markets recruiting team also.
So HR will put every resume in PDF and the recruiting team just prints them out? Believe it or not, the specific format recruiters view my resume in affects how I structure it.
Usually they take the whole lot of them (let's say 150) and makes it into one big file. They e-mail it out as an attachment and you can do with it what you want (i.e. print it out, read on screen, whatever).
Always convert your resume to PDF before you upload it. PDF is the only format that does not alter the layout/look of your file when printed.
Beastmode, what is your recruiting history?
What do you mean? I just finished up my second year at a target and am getting ready for recruiting next semester, if that's what you're asking.
I ask because you can in fact spend too much time obsessing over recruiting. You will be lucky if they spend more than 30 secs on your resume. Take the process seriously by all means but make sure you are working at the right level. Making a good resume is not a complicated skill.
Actually, most "business frat alumni" go into the gay sex industry, where they are infamous for their aptitude at having gay sex.
But seriously, those people are the biggest fucking douchebags on this planet. I hope I don't need to explain why.
http://www.drmarkklein.blogspot.com/
[quote=mark klein MD]Actually, most "business frat alumni" go into the gay sex industry, where they are infamous for their aptitude at having gay sex.
But seriously, those people are the biggest fucking douchebags on this planet. I hope I don't need to explain why.
http://www.drmarkklein.blogspot.com/[/quote]
You should listen to Mark Klein, D.B. - he has working knowledge of the gay sex industry.
LOL. Why so much hate for them (I'm not in one)? BTW, are you really the Mark Klein that you link to in your profile? If so, were you always a psychiatrist or were you in banking at some point?
Do you really think the asshole who spends all day making gay-sex jokes on this site is/was a psychiatrist or a banker?!
He's obviously a zit-faced high school kid (if he's in college, this is so much worse) with entirely too much time on his hands.
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