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I think it really depends. Once you reach a certain age / level of experience, you start to plan holidays more in advance and I think it's absolutely fine to take a holiday shortly after starting as long as you raised it up during the process. Especially if you start in the late spring / summer, it's expected that you'll be taking some holidays.

For more junior roles, I think it really depends on the firm. We usually try to have our incoming associates have at least a couple of weeks off before starting so they don't usually take holidays in their first few months, but then I don't think that taking a week off would be such a big deal. But when I started in banking, the norm was to wait a full year before taking some time off.

 

If you join in September, Christmas should be the first main holiday. I think it's OK to take 1 day off for a long weekend 2-3 months into the new job if it's a special occasion like a best friend/sibling wedding. If you join in Jan I would hold off until Easter to take a big holiday off. This depends on the vibe of your firm though; ours is pretty chilled and some semi-senior new hires took a week off 1 month in a no one cared

 

Thank you! Work in trading, so any won't be any projects per se, just de-risking and making the other traders aware of what's on my book

The Oct/Nov deadline is good colour as well

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Internship: I'd personally say not to take any, perhaps a long week-end. When I see some take a week or two off I'm shocked, you only have 10 or so weeks to impress and you go away for 10-20% of it.

Graduate role / Analyst: Generally start in August/September so I'd say wait until Christmas, although a long week-end is fine.

After that, it depends, if you're changing job/company and you have holidays already planned before interviewing, mention it towards the end of the process. If you don't have anything booked, I'd wait a couple of month after starting. . All of this depends on teams and companies, but I'd generally say wait at the very least 2 months before asking for time off (first role out of university, besides 2 days off at Christmas, I waited 8 months before taking a full week off).

 

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