Non-Alumni Networking

I go to a target school and have a SA IBD internship, but am considering applying to other places for full time positions. During the SA recruitment process, I was told to focus my networking efforts on alumni. I am not so familiar with the FT process, and I was wondering if it makes a difference if you network with alumni in terms of the process, or if it is merely recommended to network with alumni because alumni like to help out students from their school. I ask this because I realized there are a few people I know through an organization I am involved with that I could reach out to, but are not alumni of the school I go to.

Any help is much appreciated!

 

So for the process it is not that only alumni can recommend people from their school for a position but that anyone can recommend anyone, just that it tends to be alumni doing the recommending? Is that correct?

And when you apply for FT, do you apply into the overall IBD division or do you apply for a specific group?

 

Although I'm only working as a SA right now, I actually got this job through networking through a non-alumni. My understanding is that it's definitely easier for an alumni to respond to your cold-emails/calls, but where you go to school goes out the door in conversations.

 
Black Jack:
^They don't give you email access away from the office? Rough. Anyways, just email them from your personal, and say in the email that you are currently interning at MS.

All BBs dont unless you have a laptop from the BB for remote or a blackberry. Its compliance rules. Not allowed on personal devices.

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 

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