Easiest IB division to get into (apart from operations!)

Anyway, I'll answer your 'question' about knowing how opinons vary from person to person and say that the BO jobs are less competitive but as I said, you will be caught out at the interview straight away if thats not where your heart lies. You will be up against people who want to do operations, tech etc as a career.

This really isn't true. Plenty of people I know ended up in BO without having a real interest in it. You can fake it till you make it. At least for the less competitive roles where they probably won't go to deep into your motivation or understanding of the role itself.

What roles are in Operations?
Is Risk Managment Operations?

Hmm, I've heard that tech just rejects people straight away if they don't see a real interest.

Remember the people interviewing you for BO are people who have been in BO for a long time and it's their career. I doubt they will want a cocky wannabe trader working with them who is just using their career as a back up.

If you are right, I still wouldn't recommend going for the role thats the least competitive. For me, I'd much rather switch careers to something I would enjoy as much as trading etc rather than spend my whole life in operations wondering what if.

Hmm, I've heard that tech just rejects people straight away if they don't see a real interest.

Remember the people interviewing you for BO are people who have been in BO for a long time and it's their career. I doubt they will want a cocky wannabe trader working with them who is just using their career as a back up.

If you are right, I still wouldn't recommend going for the role thats the least competitive. For me, I'd much rather switch careers to something I would enjoy as much as trading etc rather than spend my whole life in operations wondering what if.