Can You Renege On Your Investment Banking Job Offer Without Being Blacklisted for Life?

Interview season is finished.

You got 30 first round interviews, made it to 5 Superdays, and came away with an offer at UBS – which you quickly accepted.

But 5 minutes ago, you just received a call from your recruiter at Goldman Sachs: “another spot opened up” and they’re extending a summer internship offer to you.

So you renege on the UBS offer and go to the “better” bank, right?

You Didn’t Get Any Investment Banking Summer Internship Offers. Now What Do You Do?

Summer Internships Plan BSummer internship recruiting is over.

Bankers have come to your campus, conducted interviews, finished recruiting, and now they’re back to their pitch books.

But you don’t have any offers.

What now?

No Summer Offers vs. No Full-Time Offers

You Didn’t Get Any Full-Time Investment Banking Offers. Now What Do You Do?

no_full_time_offers“Don’t Panic.”

Or not.

If full-time recruiting season is over and you don’t have any offers, you should be panicking at least a little.

While summer interns who don’t get return offers have a few months to fix the situation, your options are more limited.

But that doesn’t mean you have no chance of getting full-time offers – so here’s what to do.