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.
Get a fucking life
Bit harsh lol no way you're hating on a 17-18 yr old. He's only trying to do the best for himself
Lmfao chill the fuck out kid
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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
Exercise and try to get laid.
Start Modelling
Getting play will do wonders for your behaviorals and networking skills
Relax
Relax
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.
Brah just do both. You can easily enjoy summer and do a bit of practice for technicals. Just make the most of this summer though, life doesn't get easier from this point.
Hedge Fund internship
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.
Yeah UCL Econ is great, not quite LSE Econ but still good enough. Make sure you get a 1st in your first year, it'd quite a big course so if you can place near the top you're in good shape
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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