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

No Matter How Badly You Fail Your Investment Banking Interviews, You Can’t Do Worse Than This

Forget about conquering your interviews and fixing all your mistakes.

Sometimes it’s fun to sit back and laugh at how badly you failed.

Or at least to engage in some schadenfreude.

Story #1: Holla Back, Office

This one took place when I was interviewing for every single position under the sun: banking, sales & trading, hedge funds, consulting, and reality TV hosting.

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.