Assuming you go to a , your first networking in banking experience will be on-campus, and so the question invariably pops up “Is it a strategy worth pursuing?”
Well, for sure – because just like the fat walking-challenged birthday boy, all you have to do is sit around on-campus and wait for everyone (banks, college, clubs) to come to you. It’s just so easy!
The will hold investment banking information sessions, canapé-n-drink fueled networking chats and even interview you on campus, however informally.
Your will lay on financial career fairs, banking career talks and other industry crutch-grabbing shindigs.
Meanwhile will put on mixers for students interested in becoming investment banking analysts, giving you even more contacts and knowledge.
But the catch is you’re not the only birthday boy at this party. In fact your entire year level will be joining you and you’re really not that special.
So the unique quality that makes investment banking networking on-campus so attractive – being how accessible it is – is also its downfall. In fact, it’s so easy to attend that even students with barely-there hard-ons for investment banking will come to these sessions. and almost no barriers to entry.
No wonder then that these investment banking networking events (with or without bankers) are more likely to resemble the killing fields depicted in a National Geographic Serengetti Special rather than a Professional Career Event.
There are to get a fistful of business cards, half-assed answers to lame questions and a couple cups of complimentary liquor.
The final potential death knell is that these events often take place so close to – sometimes even just days before – that they’re unlikely to help you establish any long lived relationships with bankers (unless you are a junior).
Our end conclusion is “, but don’t make this the last stop on your networking ways”.
They are the most gaff-filled event on Earth and yet we still think you should go, so let us explain ourselves.
There’s significant talk out there amongst banking bloggers that on-campus information sessions / mixers are really . And certainly, in some respect they can do more harm than good.
We are talking about events where the sheer number of students trying to stand out and impress bankers is enough to have you bolting for the exits after all – the x-rated is enough to make you reach for the freaking sick bag at times. And with the downright awful, maybe these events should be no gos.
But you get into investment banking. Think bank presentations, 5-1 student-banker conversations, and most of all speaking to fellow grads in the know. And since these are amongst the top 15 goals of networking in banking, on-campus events are worth a shot.
Plus if you take the initiative to make contacts with bankers via very brief intelligent questions and comments, and you (this is the key), you’ll have a rocking time.
(1) we took away pages of valuable scribbled notes and advice, (2) met dozens of high-quality people; both bankers, HR & fellow switched on students, (3) racked up multiple resume passes and (4) received many requests to call and interview outside normal recruiting.
And think about the . We racked up all this courtesy of barely a handful of afternoons and evenings spent on-campus (probably a collective 20 hours in total…that’s it!). The message I’m trying to scream is that on-campus networking is rewarding, painless and efficient. The freaking bankers are coming to you remember…and in droves!
Thankfully if your on-campus networking efforts end worse than my recent Ghanaian-goldmine speculative play there’s still a consolation prize to cushion the blow.
Oh, and perhaps a little lukewarm canapé too?
Check out the complete guide on invesment banking networking on-campus.
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No, I think it is all about professional speculators who drive up the price of stocks and paper futures in order to abscond with a short term profit without regard to the long term effects on the nation's economy.
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Yes, it's worse than we thought.
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I think you make some good observations for an 18 year old, or for someone much older.
The media: yes, the media certainly is constantly telling us of our superiority and our needs. You see this in news, advertisements, and entertainment. For example, as a child watching WWII movies, I thought we beat the Germans almost single handed. In tactical situations their soldiers were always better uniformed and were quite willing to pop up like carnival targets. After I started reading, I discovered 80% of their ground forces had to be used just to hold the Russians back. And their soldiers did not have any mass suicidal tendencies.
Autos and the american dream: yes this situation is pretty well documented. I dated a gal working in a Ford factory years ago. She had been laid off. She was making $30 per hour (this was circa 1990!). Meantime, I knew a guy who had bought a new GM and found an empty beer can in the door-inside the door, courtesy of some factory worker. And another guy I knew bought a new Chevy truck, and could not get the cab light to go out. I know he had more troubles, and shoddy service. Then the next thing I know he's driving a Toyota!
Yes I agree with the greed concept- I believe Westbound made a good point of that. It seems to be somewhat politically incorrect to mention greed. Yet this is certainly a factor in every strata of society. The rich reward themselves for sending jobs overseas, they hire illegal aliens (although small business must employ many also), build products designed to fail faster than before (my washing machine repair man said to hang on to my old Maytag, new models of all types are crappy). And the rich have worked hard to fight against taxes, naming the inheritance tax the "death tax" and recently having the triumph of getting Bush into office. The middle class wants bigger vehicles and bigger houses, bigger penises, etc. The average size of an american house doubled between 1950 and 1975, and doubled again by 1999. The big auto makers made big vehicles because that was what the market demanded. And their are plenty of people deliberately living off welfare (I worked in a welfare office). They live off their children, off taxes, and sometimes relatives and friends in addition, as occasion arises. (They sometimes receive large stipends from family without telling the welfare office, and without telling the family they are on welfare.)
So like you say the dream is actually now a big part of the problem.
However I believe our 2 party system is also a major problem. It presents basically 2 platforms, or 2 lists of ideas about subjects from abortion and gun control to taxation and foreign policy. How many people actually are in favor of every item on their parties platform? If GOP, you are supposed to love guns, hate taxes, love the market, hate abortion, on and on. This is illogical. One reason this system exists is so that parties can promote their own interests, while publicly they talk of the ideals on their platforms. George Washington in his farewell address warned that this would happen if parties came to dominate the political scene. The benefits of this system: we don't have to think so much about issues, and we can call each other names like "lib" or "con." You certainly see enough of this useless badgering, baiting, and bickering here on Yahoo!
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