Currently a first year biomed student, interested in investment banking

Hi! As the title suggest I am a first year biomed student currently studying at KCL

I am interested in investment banking as a possible future career path to, but I am not really sure how to go about it. I have applied to many internships, never got an offer

Any advise is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi! As the title suggest I am a first year biomed student currently studying at KCL

I am interested in investment banking as a possible future career path to, but I am not really sure how to go about it. I have applied to many internships, never got an offer

Any advise is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Need to know more about you/what you've done. How many applications, what division, previous work experience, societies etc. Have you had interviews?

If you define yourself as pretty you should hang around canary wharf on firday nights and make it clear to everyone around you that you are available.

As males start to show interest, you should try to guess from their clothes (brand of suit etc. You'll get used to it, no rush) and age what position they occupy.

From associate onwards go all in and reply positively to any request as weird as they may seem. The morning after, when they hand out some cash, politely refuse and beg them for an interview.

A few, I honesty don't remember. I remember applying to HSBC and nomura for their summer internship programme. It wasn't in any specific division I don't think. I also applied to nomura woman in banking (since I am female and posses two X chromosomes). I am currently in the business division of GKT gazette. No previous work experience in banking (I have tried to get some back office work at Barclays, Halifax and HSBC, but I was unsuccessful)

I have had no interviews at all.

I just honestly wanted to know if it was a viable career path and if it is how do I go about it

Thanks for your reply!

You're still a first year, so for internships you're up against penultimate years (which is who internships are designed for), and also recent graduates without a full time offer. So it shouldn't be surprising that you haven't landed an offer yet. You missed out by not applying for spring weeks, but it's not the end of the world.

Focus on building up your CV to show leadership qualities, societies stuff, and if you can get it, some finance-based work experience. I'm pretty sure you could spin the GKT experience into something nice for the work experience section (definitely try to make this sound as finance-y as possible, I think it's a cool thing to be doing). Try and get something to do this summer, whether it's teaching kids in Africa or some finance experience, just have something well written on your CV so you look interesting.

Then apply for internships for 2014, applications will open from August. Ace the aptitude tests, see how you fare at landing/converting interviews.

And spread your net wider when applying. Consider there being three groups, the bulge bracket (GS, MS, CS, C, DB, JPM, UBS, BAML, BARC), other large firms with smaller overall investment banking footprints (BNPP, SocGen, Nomura, HSBC and so on.), and then depending on the sort of thing you're applying for, you should consider a third group containing all sorts of other firms (brokerages, asset managers, 'boutique' M&A shops).