Built by people who've been through it
At a target school, recruiters come to you. Everywhere else, you go to them. Semi-Target is the playbook for doing that, from the first email to the full-time offer.
Why Semi-Target exists
At a non-target school, the recruiting process isn't handed to you. There's no career fair full of banks, no alumni pipeline, and most of the advice you can find is written for students who already have both.
We went through that, and we found that we could help other students in the same position. Not by knowing more finance than everyone else, but by making the process visible: who to contact, what to say, when things open, and what interviewers actually ask.
The help that mattered most was usually the simplest. Tightening a resume until every line carried a result. Rewriting a cold email so it was easy to answer. Turning “I should network more” into a weekly routine with something to track. Students who had been stuck on where to start ended up with a plan they could follow.
Semi-Target is that help, organized in one place, so you don't need to know the right person to get it. None of this is magic. It's the specific, unglamorous work that gets you into the pile, regardless of what school is on your resume.
Three principles behind every guide
- Process over pedigree
- The gap between a target and a semi-target is mostly access to the process: who to contact, what to say, when things open. Process can be learned.
- Specific over generic
- Every guide ends in something you can do today: an email to send, a model to rebuild, a question to drill. No motivational filler.
- Honest over hype
- No guaranteed offers, no invented testimonials, no fake urgency. Recruiting is competitive. What you get is a clear system and the reps.
Built for you if you are…
- A high school or college student, at any school, who wants to start early
- Aiming at high finance (banking, private equity, hedge funds, asset management) or consulting, or still deciding
- Starting with little or no network in the industry
- Ready to send the emails and put in the reps
Start this week, not next semester.
$19.99, one time. Every guide, every tool, and a personal resume review.