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Career advice
bleadingheart
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Our son just graduated from oxbridge. He studied math and thinking of working in investment banking or tech industry. The problem is he only did internship one summer in AI. He is tech savy and doing a certificate course to update his analytical skills at the local university. He is applying for jobs now but I have a feeling the IB industry is looking for undergrads with internship experience. Could someone please advice the best way to land on an entry level job in a large firm where he can learn the ropes. Thanks.
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Any college career center software like Handshake he should be registered for, have resume on, and looking at jobs posted there? Does he have a Linkedin account with all his professional info and made it open to recruiters? Has he searched for campus programs that interest him to see if he can apply?
Finally, there have to be some Oxbridge alumni working in the US he might reach out to? Via college directory or similar?
Agree that best option is to contact alumni from his university who currently work in IB.
And by "work there" I assume you mean the UK-- but the IBank's recruit globally. He needs to get in touch with the recruiting team's contact at each bank that participates in on-campus recruiting at his university, and ask them to forward his resume to their US counterpart.
He needs to hustle, or else he'll be put into the 2020 pool. And with talk of a recession, hiring targets for 2020 are likely to be flat or down, so the firms aren't caught the way they were in October of 2008....
If he isn't 100% sold on banking, he can launch a job search like any other "soon to launch" grad across a number of industries- lots of companies like to hire new grads with strong math and analytical skills. So he needs to cast a wide net- Insurance, Airlines, Credit Card and consumer banking, Energy. Getting on Linkedin to network with recent grads of his university, as well as more established alums is going to be more efficient than responding to random job postings.