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“I’ve secured a 2017 investment banking job on Wall Street: this is how”
There are several things that I wish I had known at the beginning of my college years. What not to do as much as what to do, and realising that the odd misstep is OK on the way to your first banking...
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Don’t be fake: How IEX’s “Flash Boys” boost employee morale
Should you be yourself at work? In the political financial services sector, the concept of authenticity might be viewed as both a the latest HR fad and a genuinely unwise course of action. However,...
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“Lessons I’ve learned from working the brutal night shift at Lazard”
Back in the early days of the millennium, shortly after the internet bubble burst and before 9/11, I took a job at a French investment bank. I worked the night shift as a project assistant for Lazard...
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How to get through 100-hour weeks as a boutique IB analyst
Some boutique investment banks on Wall Street have the reputation of being “sweatshops”. As an analyst who worked as a boutique, I can tell you that you’ll have to work 80, or even 100, hours a week...
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Fintech experts wanted, but not many people fit the bill
This will be a year characterized by the rapid growth of all things futuristic – artificial intelligence, the internet of value, virtual reality and blockchain. As financial institutions ramp up...
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Why I stopped being a quant and got back into AI instead
When I first graduated from Stanford, I’d tell people I have a degree in artificial intelligence and they would reply, “so, you are a science fiction writer?” I would then explain that I was an...
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You should’ve looked for a London finance job two years ago. A chart
Recruitment firm Robert Walters says banks in London are “bored of Brexit” and are therefore hiring again. That may be true, but it was still a lot harder to find a new finance job in the UK in the...
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I’m a data scientist at a bulge-bracket bank – here’s how to land a job like...
I work as a data scientist at a bulge-bracket bank. I joined not long after getting my Ph.D. in mathematics from an Ivy League university and attending an NYC Data Science Academy boot camp. I’ve been...
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I left behind my career in banking, PE and the Big Four for a social media...
I remember trying to reassure myself as I walked out the doors of my swanky Madison Avenue and 42nd Street office: “Just breathe! Don’t worry; it will be okay!” It was my last day of work at Jones Lang...
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The recent fixed income party won’t stop investment banks’ FICC desks shrinking
Last month, the U.S. federal reserve raised interest rates for the second time in three months, the first of three rate hikes expected in 2017. While other markets — Japan, Europe and Canada — are...
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Compliance might not be sexy, but there’s nowhere I’d rather work in banking....
Compliance jobs in investment banks are never as sought-after as front office roles, but as someone who’s worked in J.P. Morgan’s middle office for over three years, I’d say that anyone who’s...
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I worked at J.P. Morgan, then McKinsey and have just started my own business....
I delivered eight venti unsweetened green iced teas, hold the ice, twice per day. This order fueled the Lehman Brothers credit default swap trading desk in August 2008, and placing it was one of my...
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Why trying to outdo other investment banking interns is a waste of time
Investment banks’ summer internships are incredibly competitive to get into, and there are so many young, type-A type personalities crunched up against each other that tension inevitably occurs. Some...
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Think you’re a banker who knows it all? Still ask these questions before...
Getting a job offer, particularly if you’ve been out of the market for a while, is exciting. You might think: “I can do this, I’ve done it before and they’ll pay me more than my last employer …what...
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Eight reasons to work in wealth management, or not
The financial services industry offers plenty of excellent careers opportunities, but many students and career-changers are unsure of which part of the industry to join. Here are various reasons for...
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How to schmooze senior bankers during your banking internship
If you’ve got an internship in banking , then you probably already know that you’re going to have to network. You probably also know that you’ll need to network strategically: Many times interns get...
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What I wish I had known as a young woman at a Big Four firm
Rather than just putting your head down, working hard and letting the results speak for themselves, often you can’t get ahead in your career unless you assert yourself in the workplace. It’s an insight...
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How to succeed at a buy-side internship
Over the past three years, I’ve managed to secure internships across all aspects of the buy-side – I’ve interned at hedge fund Perry Capital, private equity firm BayBoston and am currently spending my...
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How the CFA changed my career
While at first, the CFA exam was a thing I did for the thrill of overcoming the huge challenge of cracking into asset management and becoming a portfolio manager, in the end, getting my CFA designation...
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I’m an equity researcher. Someone asked me to work for free
You know when the job you’re doing in financial services is falling out of fashion – people around you start disappearing, you’re paid less, the head of your department stops doing deep throaty laughs...
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