No one in uni gets 'headhunted', that's purely reserved for those working in the field with several years of work experience.
A 'target' is a university that all firmss visit, give presentations/networking sessions at and favour students when culling down on the number of applicants for front office roles. What you'll find is that a high proportion of students from these universities are represented in internships and grad scheme intakes - this proportion is about 80% of the UK grad intake for front office.
Targets: Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Warwick, UCL and Imperial
Semi-target is where some firms target but not all. A smaller proportion make it in (c.15% of the intake), however you do still get a bit of a boost over say, a university where no firms recruit from or bother going to.
i.e. Nottingham, Bristol, Durham, Bath, Cass, Edinburgh, Manchester, St Andrews, KCL and Birmingham
Then the rest of the universities that firms don't pay any vested attention towards for their front office positions - or non-targets. It's much more difficult (not impossible, it has been done several times) to break in from one of these and you pretty much have to be an exceptional individual to have a chance.
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