Pretty Fucked For FT Recruiting

I spent the summer interning at a very sweaty PE firm and literally had no time to do full-time recruiting. I started reaching out to contacts right after my internship ended, and was getting an incredibly low response rate, and most responses communicated that they were not running processes or somehow already finished. I've been reaching out to people at every firm under the sun, and have frankly gotten absolutely nothing in terms of opportunities. Outside of the typical advice of delaying a semester or recruiting for corpdev and whatnot, is there anything I can realistically do here? I know my technicals cold, but I'm not getting interviews to prove I know my shit, and time is running out. If anyone has advice, I'm direly in need.

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Where did you intern at? I am from one of the Ivies but have seen bunch of alums starting at an adjacent role FT and eventually moving to banking. I can think of right top of my head who did credit rating > low-tier BB, PWM > LMM IB > MM IB

 

Interned at a MMPE firm that slashed returns. I haven’t seen any success reaching out to MM or LMM IB’s even.

 

IMO, cold applying has landed me way more interviews than trying to network. If you have a strong resume, I bet someone will give a look for at least an HR screen.

I don't think it is too late but time is running out. I have seen my classmates land offers during their last semesters. But you have to be ok with boutique/regional IB, capital markets, valuations type roles.

 

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