IB post Oxford MFE

Anyone here graduate from Oxford MFE (or similar tier MFE/MFin program) and get investment banking analyst position at a bulge bracket without prior SA position? My summer breaks weren’t long enough to
do SA position and quite frankly it wasn’t until end of my penultimate year I fully realized I wanted to pursue IB within finance. I’m curious what you would recommend for recruiting—I know Oxford Saïd has a careers center and we will get recruiters from top banks but still makes me anxious knowing FT offers are given out to SAs as early as August.

Essentially what I’m asking is did you find it most helpful to do all the networking and applying yourself, with the backing of the MFE/MFin and your alum network as helpful, or rely mostly on the recruiters that reach out to the program? I’m also assuming I technically only qualify for “New Analyst”
program but looks like lots of MFE grads technically took on SA position which rolled into FT offer in same year so not sure which I should be targeting. Any other tips would be very appreciated! :)

 

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