A survey of first-year investment bank analysts could indicate a shift in how future junior bankers are trained up

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Today we've got stories on the top places business students want to work (hint: it's not Wall Street), how Twitter is looking to get a little risqué, and what life is like in one of the most luxurious places in the world.

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1. The kids are alright.

Would you like to get inside the mind of Wall Street's junior bankers?

Lucky for you, you don't have to spend a night in Murray Hill to get the inside scoop.

Insider's Emmalyse Brownstein got her hands on recruitment firm Odyssey Search Partners' survey of first-year investment banking analysts.

The data, which includes responses from more than 1,000 junior bankers between November 2021 and January 2022, is chock full of nuggets.

There's a breakdown of their backgrounds. (White, heterosexual males still dominate the field.) What they like and don't like about their jobs (more hands-on experience, less mundane tasks). And which banks they enjoy the most, and least, working at. (You might be surprised on this one.)

What stood out for me was a question on whether they would be willing to leave their IB positions before their program ended.

A quick refresher: Investment bank analysts typically spend two to three years at their firms before moving to another job — like private equity —or getting an MBA.

More than half of respondents (52%) said they'd be willing to leave their current job ahead of schedule compared to the 48% who said they'd prefer to complete the IB program. For comparison, around 42% said they'd be willing to jump ship early in 2019 and 2020.

Now consider what we know about how this generation of junior bankers doesn't mind pushing for change and bucking the norm. Could we see the traditional IB pipeline break down in some ways?

It's true junior bankers aren't drumming up new business for banks. But they still play a critical role, doing the behind-the-scenes work needed to get deals done. Disrupting that talent pipeline — something we saw briefly last summer — has serious knock-on effects.

Click here to check out 13 of the most interesting data points from a survey of first-year investment banking analysts.

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Edited by Jeffrey Cane (tweet @jeffrey_cane) in New York and Hallam Bullock (tweet @hallam_bullock) in London.