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Got a life: New bankers seek balance; Banks get more creative to lure top graduates.(Focus: Banking)

Crain's Chicago Business, October, 2004 by Lancaster, Hal

Byline: HAL LANCASTER J. P. Bauman says he was "preconditioned'' to pursue a career in investment banking or securities trading-after all, that's what University of Chicago economics graduates tend to do. But he was entranced by a recruiter from Bank One (before its acquisition by J. P. Morgan Chase this summer), who sold him on the bank's Scholars Program.

"I was pretty much in touch with what was going on in the recruiting scene,'' says Mr. Bauman, who graduated last year. "This was the most unique opportunity I came across.'' Most of the other companies he considered were hiring people for narrow niches. But in the Scholars program, Mr. Bauman, who has been with Bank One a little more than a year, gets to rotate among different commercial banking jobs...

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