I've recently had some free time on my hands and I figured I should put it to good use and so I wrote an "all-in-one" guide on the investment banking recruiting process for undergrads. I figured with recruiting season right around the corner / right upon us, it could be very helpful and I've been encouraged by many to share it. A bit of background on myself, I'm from a non-core school and I summered at GS and I'm now a campus ambassador for the firm (so I think I know the recruiting process decently well).
Throughout my recruiting journey I actively used WSO to keep up on timelines, potential interview questions, and the general structure of the interview process for each firm. There's tons of phenomenal resources on WSO and I hope I can add to them!
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More than happy to give back to the community as much as possible, feel free to connect on LinkedIn / via PM on WSO (whichever you feel more comfortable with) and we can set up a time to chat!
I want to give a special thanks to the WSO community. Without you guys none of this could have been possible. I've learned a tremendous amount of information simply by reading and talking with some of the top contributors on this forum.
Currnetly have an excel sheet built with first name/last name, firm, position, phone#, email, point of last contact, and quick notes on each...its 294 rows rn. Welcome to the "jesus christ just give me a shot" club
Dang you've got some real guts posting to your LinkedIn with your actual WSO account that isn't a throwaway
1) I want people to be able to freely reach out to me (although I recognize this can be somewhat done via PM, I think LinkedIn is a lot more fluid)
2) I don't want people to question my credentials
3) I think WSO has too many anonymous posters – let's build the community not bring each other down. In most cases, if you're in it to help others, no reasons to post completely anonymous (although I can sympathize with people working in select banks where it may be easy to narrow down who may be posting).
Doing projects in your free time is nice, but how can you consider yourself qualified enough to give advice? Get real, you're basically a SA. "Office Hours" lmfao that's so cringe. Are you trying to become the new Sam Shiah? Anyone reading WSO will have access to a much greater wealth and quality of information, since the content on WSO is sourced from a variety of users, including the bankers actually reading the resumes and running the recruiting process. You don't have credentials, you are a basic bitch intern.
Another point which I found absolutely detestable is you creating several WSO accounts to reply to the thread. Do you think we're retarded?
Dear god, if you don't want to end up like Sam Shiah, get real and get laid.
Gotta have respect for the guy posting his LinkedIn even if he could use a little more experience. However, so far so good on his resume.
When are you going to post your Linkedin so that we can kindly critique it?
How tf are you so upset over some guy writing a job search guide?
1) I have one WSO account. I have not made any duplicates
2) I have no financial gain by providing advice (Sam Shiah charges lots of $ for his advice), and I don't see this as my "career", rather something I put together to help people
3) You're right, I don't have the years of experience that seasoned bankers have, but I am connected with the timelines of recruiting and how they're changing (as a campus ambassador and also as someone who knows many underclassman currently applying / going through the process). Doesn't it make sense to have someone who just went through the recruiting process (successfully I like to think) help students as opposed to someone who did it 5 years ago?
4) The resources used to prepare for interviews tend to switch up a bit and I simply put the resources I found most helpful into one easy spot
5) I have friends a few years into banking already and they're so busy they hardly know when applications are even due
6) You're shitposting anonymously because your comment hardly has much value... It's neither funny nor helpful, exactly the reason why I think many users on WSO think WSO should remove the anonymous function