(Non-target) What work experience to get into BB firms?

BankonBanking
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:46:34 +0000

I think your best bet at this point would be to start reaching out to small boutique IB shops, leveraging your accounting background and interest in the field into, ideally, an interview. The lending internship won’t help your pursuit, and the internship at Merrill will only help you if it is in IB or possibly S&T - if it is in PWM, or Ops, it won’t help much at all. Considering you have already graduated, your best bet is probably to something along the lines of boutique IB or, if not, then another interesting/analytically demanding position for a few years, couple that with some solid EC work, and then go to B School. Post B School, make the move to BB IB. Good luck

IBanker