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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 116963" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>If we talk about City firms broadly, then my advice would be to focus on your academics and building up your CV and then apply next year once you have your final year degree results.</p><p></p><p>Unless you can pick firms that do not assess academics at all (there are a select few out there), then you will struggle given your first year grades ultimately sound like they are capped at 40% and it also sounds like some of your second year grades could be below a 2.1 too. If so, that means the majority of your grades are below a 2.1 and therefore any firm that has a 2.1 requirement are going to think it is too risky to see you.</p><p></p><p>You could try open days and other careers events to network with firms and to try and build connections with firms you want to apply to, rather than just applying cold. Impressing people in person and then having a stronger profile for next year is likely to put you in a much stronger position.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 116963, member: 2672"] If we talk about City firms broadly, then my advice would be to focus on your academics and building up your CV and then apply next year once you have your final year degree results. Unless you can pick firms that do not assess academics at all (there are a select few out there), then you will struggle given your first year grades ultimately sound like they are capped at 40% and it also sounds like some of your second year grades could be below a 2.1 too. If so, that means the majority of your grades are below a 2.1 and therefore any firm that has a 2.1 requirement are going to think it is too risky to see you. You could try open days and other careers events to network with firms and to try and build connections with firms you want to apply to, rather than just applying cold. Impressing people in person and then having a stronger profile for next year is likely to put you in a much stronger position. [/QUOTE]
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