are banks really not hiring for the fall?

We've all read about the cuts that's taking place in BBs left and right. My question is, are banks really not going to recruit at schools this fall?

Has it gotten so severe that Morgan Stanley would say to Carnegie Mellon, "ok we've only got 1 spot for you guys, that's it. no ifs, buts, no exceptions, 1 means 1".

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RossGellar:
targets in my opinion are closed to the Ivy's plus 4 or 5 top business school programs

Stanford? Duke? MIT? Chicago? UT Austin? Northwestern?

No one cares about your opinion.

im also curious about what are the most heavily recruited target, non-ivys?

Georgetown, Michigan (Ross), NYU seem to do well too

 

I heard from a career services associate at my alma mater say that B of A (at least in Charlotte) would hire only from their summer intern class. They would not be actively recruiting on campus.

 

MS made this fuss about coming to our school for full-time recruiting, but when i asked a friend, he said that they really didn't have plans to take on anyone full-time. i think it's more of an issue of "maintaining presence" in anticipation of the hiring binge that is to come once the economy returns to normalcy.

it'd just be better if they said straight up, "we're not hiring, but also don't want to piss off career management by not coming back to campus for full-time recruiting."

 

Firms pay schools to use their on-campus facilities for recruiting and interviews. There is considerable competition for spaces and certain dates. The heavy hitters such as BBs and prestigious firms in other industries typically get the number of rooms they want on the days they prefer. So a firm reneging on its long-standing relationship with schools for a year because of market difficulties or lack of space isn't really practicing good business. Schools lose out on revenue that can't be easily replaced for that year, which they aren't happy about. In return, the reneging firms aren't likely to receive such favorable treatment in future years, thus harming their ability to recruit. That's why they come and go through the motions of interviewing without any intent to hire.

 
ChelseaFC85:
i'm a summer at ms, and i can say with near 100% certainty that we're shutting down ft recruiting and hiring almost entirely from the sa class. the same goes for lehman.

yeah I guess as an SA, you would really be in the best position to judge the analyst hiring strategy for the coming year...

I bet you're doing a HR internship!!!

 
ChelseaFC85:
i'm a summer at ms, and i can say with near 100% certainty that we're shutting down ft recruiting and hiring almost entirely from the sa class. the same goes for lehman.

HOLLYY SHIITTT

jws43yale:
Multiple banks did this at Yale this year. I know of no more than five kids hired to BB's in the fall recruiting last fall. Lehman and Deutschebank didn't even come and I know for a fact Citi and Bear hired no one. No BB's hired more than two kids and I doubt there is any way more than ten got hired in fall recruiting at Yale.

HOLLYY SHIITTT, im too fucking scared

 
ChelseaFC85:
i'm a summer at ms, and i can say with near 100% certainty that we're shutting down ft recruiting and hiring almost entirely from the sa class. the same goes for lehman.

So what your saying is for FT hires starting Summer of 2009, no one is hiring outside their internship program?

 

basically, yeah. it sucks, and i feel incredibly lucky to be here now. however, this isn't anything new, and it seems that more and more firms are moving toward cutting back in the fall and simply hiring a larger percentage of their summers. lehman has actually all but eliminated fall recruiting, choosing instead to have two summer classes. we've only got one, but unless your last name is mack or chammah, youre probably not gonna be at ms unless you're here already.

 

What a nightmare.

So basically you are f'd if you don't get an offer or are interning at a place you don't want to work at FT.

 

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