Stop posting to the tune of “am I fucked for recruiting?”. You should know going in that successfully recruiting for IB takes a lot of failure. I fell flat on my face many many times just like people told me I would. If I look back to my recruiting efforts when I first decided to go into banking, I was a dumbass who didn’t know up from down or left from right in the world of banking. Your life isn’t over if you don’t get an offer from one superday.
You’re wasting your time by seeking approval for your recruiting efforts from WSO members. You could have mastered a technical topic in the time it took for you to type the post so you don’t tell me that net income is closed to the cash account on the BS. If you’re banking material, you’ll land an offer - and if you’re not put your head down and grind until you are.
This and all the diversity posting bullshit. Focus on the grind, and you'll (probably) get an offer if you're qualified. It's hard work, and I made so many mistakes during recruiting before landing an offer. But you'll get better with more practice - better at technical, better at networking, better at interviews. If you have legitimate questions, ask away, this forum is very helpful, but don't whine here for SBs and self validation. Keep your head down, work hard, and shut the fuck up.
i will tell this to my kids
As an Asian male in IB, this is exactly what my parents instilled in me… turned out pretty well, I guess?
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as a nontarget, the "nontarget success stories" are pretty lame as well and then they give a speech like they clinched the superbowl
Why you hating let me have my moment dick what does cost you
corpfin lol
thx for the ms @ the kelley kids who couldn't make IBW
The nontarget speeches are insufferable. The 'nontargets are better' sentiment has found its way into many conversations with folks from the Midwest during my times in banking.
I'm looking at you, Indiana University. Insufferable.
ShOuLd i gO To kElleY oR hArvArD?
I’m a non target and I agree these kids need to fucking be eliminated from existence it’s pathetic attention seeking female behavior
You sound like someone who thinks their Ivy League eduction is enough to be an effective banker. Quite the contrary, it only gets you in. I’ve seen countless icy league kids go to evermore center view etc and hate their lives so much they quit because they are so broken. If you make judgements generally regarding schools, I wouldn’t like you but I am biased. It is somewhat normal to play the prestige game with big name ivies but honestly they lost their prestige when they stopped mandating SAT scores at certain schools literally those degrees like cal Berkeley do not differentiate those kids whatsoever anymore literally all you have to do is be black or say you identify as black and that you are gay and transgender and you get into pretty much Columbia NYU and those in between schools who couldn’t afford to lose any of their credibility but certainly destroyed it over the past year. This is my opinion. A degreee from many of these ivy leagues has been incredibly diluted by the far left movement
I would take Indiana over Columbia NYU brown easily. These schools just produced fucking morons these days
That’s when you know they are just tourists
Ignore the Nos.
All it takes is one yes.
No it’s not luck. You have to literally fucking take it. God damn you kids are slow
To be fair you are right but your comment gives the impression that it is somewhat up to random chance whether the offer os made. Kids need to know especially non targets that they need to walk in and force these people to hire them because they are so damn competent so as to justify the risk of hiring a non target. Although target universities are losing a lot of their heretofore prestige on wall street especially at the mba associate level; no one wants the mba kid from NYU; they’d rather find a third year lateral or or associate from another investment bank or even an accounting related transaction advisory job because the kids graduating simply lack work ethic
this. nobody ever said it was gonna be easy - head down and push thats the only way to go
I´m a narcissist and not afraid to let you know, buddy.
Hopefully you are joking if not you will get destroyed on Wall Street
No, I really am a narcissist, but I can´t hide it. Maybe I wasn´t beaten enough as a child, so I am extremely communicative.
But I'm a nOnTaRgEt who managed to break into IBD and if I can do it you can do it too!
Some nontargets make recruiting their entire life, so they can't help but not shut up when they somehow land something
I made in my entire life but when I look at these kids who feel compelled to write about it, I want to fucking shoot someone in the face. They probably shouldn’t have been hired and I know that simply because they are the type of kids that write about it prematurely when they really haven’t achieved anything yet other than an offfer which can vanish very fast
Bump - just so this can stay relevant and these stupid “worry” posts can finally end
To add to this- even if you have a low gpa or come from a school no one's heard of, there's no point in asking if you're fucked. There's stories on here of people breaking in with a sub-3.0 gpa, and of true nontargets breaking in. Are you really going to throw in the towel on your career bc some prestige whore on wso told you you need to have a 3.8+ from an ivy?? If you do, you never truly wanted it anyway. You're only fucked if you decide you are. Go make something happen.
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Yeah this is the right idea. You must take it. No one will ever do you favors in this business
Kids should be asking more technical questions generally. If you never miss a technical question, which I actually never did on over ten super days, someone will hire you. But you have to bury your head in fucking rosenbaum and pearls book for a good three months and stop worrying about having sex with girls at your college
If you want you gotta take it. This builds character and ensures the proper functioning of the investment banks which are critical in our capitalist society
Categorically you can’t be a bitch
I can go on all day and set an example for these kids because they need in to compete. Otherwise their going to keep losing to Asians and Indians like they currently are and blame the world for all their problems when the problem was always their attitude and work ethic
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