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How to find Goldman Sachs bankers

Goldman Sachs is one of the most heavily networked banks in recruiting, which means generic outreach gets ignored fast. Here's how to find the right person, not just any person.

This is an independent recruiting guide for students. MarketIQ is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Goldman Sachs — the methods below use public information (LinkedIn, the bank's own site) that any student can access directly.

1. Narrow by division first

"Goldman Sachs banker" isn't one role — Investment Banking Division (IBD) is organized into industry coverage groups (TMT, Healthcare, FIG, Consumer & Retail, Industrials, Natural Resources) and product groups (M&A, Leveraged Finance, ECM, DCM). Reaching out to someone in the wrong group still counts as a networking touch, but reaching out to someone in the group you actually want to recruit into gets a sharper, more useful conversation.

2. Search LinkedIn with division-specific terms

  • "Goldman Sachs" AND "Investment Banking Division" AND "[Your School]" for alumni in IBD broadly.
  • Add the group name (e.g. "TMT", "Healthcare") once you know which coverage area interests you.
  • Filter by title: Analyst or Associate — they're one to three years removed from recruiting themselves and are the most likely to respond.

If you'd rather have ChatGPT generate the search strings and a starter list for you, the ChatGPT-assisted version of this workflow walks through exact prompts for this step.

3. Cross-check with the Goldman Sachs campus/early careers page

Goldman publishes program details, application timelines, and sometimes named contacts on its own campus recruiting pages — useful for confirming a group actually exists and is hiring before you reach out, and occasionally surfaces a legitimate first point of contact directly.

4. Email format

Like most large banks, Goldman follows a predictable first.last@ pattern at the firm-wide domain. Confirm rather than guess — a bounced or malformed email is a wasted attempt and, at worst, looks careless if it somehow reaches the wrong inbox. Once you've got a verified address, these cold email templates give you a real starting draft instead of a blank page.

This method works for any bank

Swap "Goldman Sachs" for Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Evercore, Moelis, or any other target and the same four steps apply: narrow by division/group, search LinkedIn with division-specific terms, cross-check the firm's own campus page, confirm the email format. The bank name changes; the method doesn't. The general version of this guide covers the bank-agnostic filters (seniority, recency, shared background) in more depth.

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