Pay ex-bankers to help you land a job

16 May 2008

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If you have 600 to spare, you could always put it the way of an out-of-work investment banker to help you land a graduate job.

The Telegraph reported last week that a company associated with Oxbridge Essays, which as far as we can see is Oxbridge Interns, is touting for redundant bankers to help university students fill in banks' application forms, etc.

The paper says a set of customised interview answers will cost 600 and a suitability report delivered over lunch with a banker unemployed person costs around 500.

Banks are reported to be none too happy about the initiative, with sources said to object that getting an ex-banker to fill in the application form would amount to plagiarism.

AUTHORSarah Butcher

Global Editor

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Anonymous
18 August 2008
What a joke - no need at all to spend money on this. I'm interning in London at one of the biggest US banks, from state educated background, OK degree, don't have extracurricular stuff or whatever people lie about on application forms - you don't need any of this to get into the industry. Plus, if you're really so incompetent that you can't fill out an application form, do a numerical test, or speak well at an interview then you've got no chance of surviving once you get here - that is, getting through ten weeks in such an environment, let alone being considered for a grad offer. Having to use oxbridgeinterns is probably a big sign that you won't fit in if you get the job anyway.
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justgraduated
11 July 2008
I would definitely pay..it will help your future and be repaid hundreds of times over if you got the job..
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Anonymous
25 June 2008
Not going to pay anyone ,nethin, insted of paying someone 600 to get a job i rather go out and study ICM course and just keep applying and try until you get one ,im determined to work for investment banking and will not settle for anything else, its al` the way or no way for me.. but I can only speak for myself.
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Anonymous too
5 June 2008
don't splash nothing?He must be from New York
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Anonymous
31 May 2008
I think the recruitment process created this problem, you can argue all day about cheating, but face it, if getting help with writing an essay will put one a step ahead, why not?I mean at the end of the day they can only get a handful of recruits whom are truly suited for the job.
I feel the recruitment process needs to be more personalized and the whole impersonal process of writing essays thrown out.
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