So, What Should You Do at Investment Banking Summer Training Besides Getting Wasted Each Night?

You’ve just been through a warzone to get your offer: 53 interviews, 3 weekend trips to New York, and so much time spent staring at Excel that you’ve developed a monitor tan.

But things worked out, you accepted your offer, and you’re about to start work in 2 weeks.

You just need to make it through the training program first.

But that should be the easiest part of the entire process, right? Right?

You Just Got a Full-Time Investment Banking Offer – Now, What Do You Do Before You Start?

You’ve been through interviews with 27 different banks.

17 Superdays.

You’ve talked to so many bankers that you don’t even remember half their names.

But now you’ve finally landed the offer, and you’re about to sign on the dotted line.

So what do you do between now and when you start working?

How to Prepare for Your Full-Time Investment Banking Job

As a follow-up to the article on investment banking summer internship prep, one reader wrote in asking about how full-time prep would be different.

I never wrote about this because I always thought of them as being the same – you’re not treated too much differently from an intern in the beginning.

However, there is one important difference: with a summer internship, your only goal is to get a return offer. With a full-time job, your goal is to move into something else better in the future (or advance within investment banking, if you’re crazy).

So what do you differently?