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IB recruiting guides
Practical, specific guides for finding bankers, researching them, writing outreach, and tracking the whole process — plus a free ChatGPT prompt library.
How to find investment bankers with ChatGPTStart here
The full workflow, end to end — from a single prompt to a working outreach pipeline.
How to find investment bankers to network with
Alumni search, filtering by school and group, and resolving email formats without guessing.
How to find investment banking alumni from your university
LinkedIn's Alumni tool, career center resources, and three other sources most students skip.
How to find Goldman Sachs bankers
Division-by-division search terms for Goldman specifically — and any other bank.
How to find investment bankers to cold email
Building a target list when you have zero alumni or warm connection at a bank.
How many bankers should you network with?
A practical range by recruiting stage, and why distribution across banks matters more than the total.
Investment banking cold email templates
What to actually say, plus five templates for alumni outreach, cold outreach, follow-ups, and post-coffee-chat notes.
How to track investment banking networking
The five fields a networking tracker actually needs, and why spreadsheets stop working past 20-30 contacts.
How to track coffee chats
What to write down, when, and the follow-up timeline that actually gets used.
Investment banking recruiting tracker — what to look for
The fields a real tracker needs, and where DIY spreadsheets and databases stop being enough.
Prefer copy-paste prompts? See the free ChatGPT prompt library. Looking for downloadable tools instead of guides — a tracker template, a question bank, a timeline? See the free resources hub.