IB Recruiting/Analyst Programs

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>So it seems that recruiting season is beginning...
Couple of things:
I was told by a number of people that recruitment for summer analyst programs started in January, but it seems from other posts that this is incorrect and it has already begun?</p>

<p>Also, just for fun, if you could land any internship with any bank, what would it be (be specific as far as which group you would most like to join although I know most of these programs are rotational). </p>

<p>I'll start with mine, which would be with Goldman in IBD with their Advisory Group.</p>

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<p>Jan, Feb, March--depends. </p>

<p>I would land in GS: Merchant Banking/Private Equity</p>

<p>or at Lazard under Capital Markets ... or coffee-maker for Wasserstein.</p>

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<p>Just out of curiousity, how many female college students apply for these programs?</p>

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<p>Many from the target schools(Wharton, Stern, Haas, Kelley)... but not a sizeable amount from Non Tier-1 schools apply for Ibank internships. Most are Econ majors, many are Biochem--some philosophy/liberal arts too.</p>

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<p>Here (Berkeley), info sessions for summer analyst programs have just started; there's a bunch next week (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch) Apps don't seem to be due until January, though. I don't even want to go...there's so many of them, I have midterms, and since I'm a sophomore I'll just end up hearing "We only take juniors"</p>

<p>(To Marmay234, I'm a girl.)</p>

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<p>sweetdreams87, do you know if the recruiters have any preference on students in terms of major?</p>

<p>like do they prefer certain major over others (for example, Business)?</p>

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<p>ummm. kind of, yeah. I think they do prefer econ/business majors. Still, I've talked to a lot of recruiters and they say it's okay if you major in something else, as long as you have basic coursework in business (a couple semesters of accounting, at least intro to finance)</p>

<p>I'm a political economy major, but I'm taking Haas classes too. (no official doublemajor or minor). It definitely makes it harder, I think, but not at all impossible. I know that a lot of students from my major have gone onto business related jobs after graduation</p>

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<p>i've met a lot of people in ibanking at the nyu recruiting events that didn't graduate from stern--but all of them were econ majors at CAS.</p>

<p>There are plenty of stories of people with non-business or non-econ backgrounds getting into ibanking...the head of U.S. equities at Citi graduated from Princeton with a degree in Theology. But then again that's Princeton.</p>

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<p>And I change my first choice to the summer analyst program at Blackstone in the Corporate Advisory Services Group.</p>