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Have seen numerous individuals bounce after a month at my bank. Usually what happens is the investment bank will say to the individual, “how do you think it’s going” and lead them to resigning without firing them. As a result, the individual doesn’t put the experience on their resume and both parties act like the hire never happened. Honestly, people set forward all sorts of rules about staying a year or 2 years etc. when really there are no rules. Every time you look for a job you are selling yourself and you need to find a way to spin your experience so people think it’s rational.

 

This thing is common—the person resigns because it’s clear to them they aren’t a great fit for the firm/ role. It’s much easier to resign and not put it on your resume/ have a gap of a month on your resume than having a 4 month role you got fired from. 
 

they usually just have a person lead that person down that path.

“How do you think things are going?”

”having trouble adjusting, seems like I’m not gelling with the team.”

”yeah, do you think this is a common thing in the org? Or do you think it might just be something with the culture here that makes it difficult? Candidly, feedback right now is you are a bottom performer, pretty much across the board. Maybe it’s just not a great fit?”

 

Personally saw a guy on our capital markets floor who was a first year have a nervous breakdown after a month on the desk. The guy had a legit panic attack and had to be carried out by EMTs. That was the last we saw of him. It's still a bit of a mystery as to what the hell actually happened to him but apparently he's fine and working an FP&A job at some insurance company.

 

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