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CPI will send an email in July once analysts arrive to training indicating that it’s only for introduction meetings, then 5 days later MFs will kick off, so I’d expect it in mid/late July when the liberal arts majors in your banking class are staying late during training trying to understand how to calculate accretion

 

Were invites sent out already? This is the first I’ve heard - attend target.

 

This is wild. I still don't think the process actually kicks off until most 1st years have hit the desk, or else they just won't have enough people participating, but I'd start studying. CPI sent us emails with their resume portal on a Tuesday or Wednesday in late August last summer - by Monday, I was sitting in an interview. 

 

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