How to Network for NY from Texas?

I was just interested in how some of y'all have gone about networking with people in NYC from Texas (or similarly distant places)? Obviously E-Mail, LinkedIn, etc. can be done from anywhere, but seems like there are a lot of in -person meetups typically involved as well. Do you just miss those or wait until you get an internship to do meet ups or do something completely different?

 
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Best strategy would be to use the methods you mentioned for initial outreach, and then if they respond/sound receptive to speaking with you, speak with them over the phone. Try to do this as much as possible (obviously remembering quality > quantity, but it is a numbers game), all whilst keeping in touch with people you spoke to before. Then, ideally a month or so before recruitment starts for whatever you're looking to get into, I would fly out to NYC for an extended weekend and try to meet up with as many people you spoke with over the phone as you can. I know it's expensive and inconvenient, but the in person meeting really goes far if you make good connections with them - and then few hundred dollars you spend to fly out & air bnb/sleep on someones floor will really be worth it if you land the position.

 

Similar to previous response (networked from west coast): reached out to every single alum I could find on LinkedIn (including VP/MD level, there aren't that many people from my school in NY), had a good initial email format and always tried to connect on a personal level, had a 70-80% positive response rate. Always asked for additional contacts that got me beyond my own alumni base and ended up flying out to NY multiple times (once on my own money, other times were for events that firms paid for). Flying out definitely signaled my interest in working there despite all my personal ties being on the west coast.

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From the student side, not really—there are way fewer people to even start to contact and it's annoying to only be able to speak to people over the phone when grabbing coffee is much more impactful. I completely focused on NY and didn't apply to any of the west coast OCR stuff, which probably made the process 10x as stressful because west coast recruiting is earlier than east coast. Our NY alumni are super tight and really want to get more kids out there though, so if anything I knew that I could depend on the people I connected with.

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