A step-by-step guide on making a critical career move to land the Wall Street job of your dreams

Investment banking interns are just over halfway through their stints on Wall Street, and it's time to start thinking about the next step.

Many interns will receive full-time offers in the coming weeks, which can be a make-or-break moment in your career.

If you want to leverage a full-time offer at your current firm into a job at another bank, you need to be super prepared.

Fortunately, a former banker at a bulge-bracket firm has laid out how to do that, step-by-step. He managed to turn an internship at a middle-market bank into a full-time offer at one of the top firms on Wall Street.

Here's what he had to say: