What is Recruitment Like From the Inside?

Question

As the questions states,

For those who were in a fraternity/sorority in college, is it comparable to Greek Life recruitment?

Black-Panther-25 · Accepted Answer

Yeah for sure, for obvious reasons you don’t want to be too casual ex. talking about how hungover you are from last night and how you thought you went home with an 8 but work up to a 4, but you also don’t want to be sucking the interviewer off and come off as the weird kid who’s too buttoned up and laughs at everything they say , you want to come off as an actual person not a robot, ex. a respectable individual who can talk interests outside of finance, ex.

YungBull · Answer

For my particular fraternity, recruitment (Spring rush) went as follows:

During the fall semester, we would "network" and meet the incoming freshmen. Recruitment from the inside consisted of holding powerpoint presentations on potential candidates and discussing as a group the pros and cons of each candidate. If more than 2/3s of the group felt the individual should be given a bid for initiation, and no one had a reason to blackball the guy, that freshman would ultimately be given a bid.

Does recruitment work the same for groups within investment banks?

Black-Panther-25 · Answer

To an extent, I was in a fraternity in college and a lot of the rules still apply, i) be a likable person and be able to hold a conversation, if I’m working 70+ hours with you, I would hope I could shoot the shit with you ii) be someone who I would want to grab a drink with, iii) know your shit and sound polished, but not too formal

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What is Recruitment Like From the Inside?