What should I do the summer before I start undergrad for top BB/EB IB analyst roles?

For context: Hello, I am currently an international student who has fortunately received an unconditional offer from a target university in London. To my understanding, the job market isn't the best, and it's even worse for international students. Luckily, I can speak Spanish quite well and I am currently studying French alongside it, which I believe is a small positive for the roles I am aiming for. I am, however, not from an EU country. 

So, yeah, I just wanted to know what I should do in the summer before I start my undergraduate studies in the UK. Any advice and help is appreciated.

18 Comments
 

Bit harsh lol no way you're hating on a 17-18 yr old. He's only trying to do the best for himself

 

Ignore those above. Yes do a summer if you can, any help to get a spring week is worth it coz recruiting in london is too cooked

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Okay, okay, I get it. I should enjoy my life this summer. I just kept on hearing how messed up the London job market was and got spooked, that's all. Jeez.

 

Well done on getting in, I assume this is LSE or Imperial and speaking multiple languages is a huge plus for London IB (I have seen people fight over candidates with many languages). I would enjoy the summer as you won't have this much free time again for a while.
But there are lots of pre-university programs on Trackr and stuff that are great, and any work experience is good. Just get organised about spring weeks and stuff, knowing what opens when and try and get some idea about what you want to do (IB vs S&T vs AM vs ... etc.) 

Maybe a bit early for technicals, reading the FT every day and keeping on top of macro/deals should be fine.

 

Thanks for the advice. The offer I got was from UCL for BSc Economics. I'm not sure if that will affect me much compared to LSE/Imperial tho? Will it? For work experience, I'm trying to reach out to a few local banks in my country right now, so hopefully that works out. I will take a look at Trackr, haven't heard of it before but it seems useful.

 

Also it's funny to here you say you haven't heard of Trackr, you will be unable to go 24 hours without hearing it mentioned once you start recruiting lol. Good luck!

 

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