Boston, Wed May 22nd, 6PM, Beantown Pub

Shanghai: Friday May 24th, 7PM, La Brasserie

Hong Kong: Friday May 24th, 730PM, BISOUS

NYC: June 7th (***NEW DATE***), 7PM Galway Hooker

Chicago: June 13th, 8PM, Midtown Kitchen (upstairs)

tbd June: London, Singapore (we need a host)

Patrick and his team have made some extremely helpful updates to our Finance networking guide to help you through all aspects of networking in the finance world. Inside the WSO Finance Networking Guide, you'll get a comprehensive, all-inclusive roadmap for maximizing your networking efforts (and minimizing embarrassing blunders).

CLICK HERE to access the guide now.

Why is networking so important? 46%* of Wall St. employees claim they got their current internship or job as a direct result of networking. It's simply the fastest, easiest way to get to the top of the ladder.

But how do you do it?
Where do you start?
What do you say to the big power players?
Where are the best places to network?

And most importantly, how do you get them to HIRE you? The Finance Networking Guide will help teach you what you need to know.

This info-rich book is packed with 71 pages of detailed strategies to help you get the most of your networking, including:

To both students and professionals, we'd love to hear your story.

tl;dr version: if you're a student or professional with a good story to tell / advice to pass on / lesson to teach, we'd love to hear from you. Email me at [email protected] and i'll provide you with more info.

Here are some examples of the types of posts that help others out and make WSO a better community for all:

Professionals:

• Specific advice about how you broke into your job/industry (see an example)
• Things you wish you knew before you started your career (see an example))
• Personal anecdotes regarding your life in finance (both serious and humorous stories welcome, such as "Timeline of an Investment Banking Analyst, Year 1"
• Teach about a specific area of finance that you have expertise in, (see an example)
• Specific advice regarding resumes, networking, cold calls/emails, interviews, etc
• Success stories
• Advice regarding advanced education, (MBA, MSF, CFA, etc), such as how you chose between grad schools, how you chose whether to stay at your current job vs leaving for an MBA, studying for the GMAT, (see an example)
• General advice on your career path, switching careers, leaving your job for another offer, exit opps, moving up, becoming the boss, starting a side business,
• See more specific examples below

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The Boston Globe had a recent article ("The new, do-it-yourself custom suit") about how custom suits are becoming the new standard. So much so that over 50 new “cyber tailors” have cropped up over the last two years to fill demand.

It looks like the trend is evolving though as companies like Indochino and Arden Reed have found it difficult to reach the masses with online only (let alone get the correct measurements). Indochino has been trying out pop up shops in each city and now Arden Reed is shifting to a mobile store concept.

Arden Reed launched their Kickstarter campaign about 3 weeks ago and they have almost reached their goal. Their new process takes about 30 seconds to take a full body scan that extrapolates your measurements. It looks like with no storefront they're still able to keep prices low.

So what do you think? Would you get 3D scanned for a suit or would you rather have a tailor or your friend do it online?

Finance interview coming up? The WSO Technical Questions Interview Guide (w/ Flashcards) is a compilation of the most common technical investment banker interview questions and sales & trading interview questions encountered on Wall Street.

CLICK HERE to get access to the new 2013 Tech Guide.

Updates included:

• Now over 110 pages
• New current event topics to study
• Over 50 New Questions
• 7 New brainteasers
• 16 New and Expanded Charts
• Updated statistics and examples
• Nearly every question and answer revised and edited

OR do you want even more preparation? Buy the IB Prep Pack bundle and save $20 off the retail price. The IB Prep Pack includes the Technical Interview Guide, Behavioral Interview Guide and the WSO networking guide.

CLICK HERE to get access to the Investment Banking Prep Pack

Have you purchased an earlier version and want an upgrade? Fwd your original receipt to [email protected] with the subject "New Tech Guide"

In the spirit of phantombanker's post last year "Free B-School Guides!", Clear Admit has recently come out with 2013-214 guides here: School Snapshots

From Phantombanker's post last year:
[quote]The Clear Admit Shop currently has free b-school "snapshot" guides available for download here

Mod note: Originally in this interview, esteemed member SirTradesaLot began the discussion on meritocracy and wall street, and we've continued to ask this question in interviews. What are your thoughts?

SirTradesaLot:

This is syndication from The Epicurean Dealmaker.

It occurred to me the other day while trimming a pensive cigar, O Dearly Beloved, that, while I have slain (or hopefully at least severely incommoded) many dragons in these pages and sacrificed many billions of pixels on the Altar of Knowledge for the benefit of your education and illumination, I have perhaps been remiss in one important respect. I have written at length as to how (and why) a hopeful supplicant might enter the grand and glorious vocation of investment banking, and I have dilated at even greater length on what grizzled old veterans such as myself do once we have achieved our cushy sinecures therein. But I have distinctly overlooked the steps by and through which an eager young tadpole fresh from the leafy groves of academe transforms him or herself into a hoary old bullfrog barking orders and swilling scotch from a gilded lily pad.

This, I freely confess, is a lamentable oversight. For the metamorphosis through which said tadpole transforms itself into said bullfrog is neither simple, obvious, trivial, nor pain-free. Many (most, really) are the novitiates entering the holy precincts of my industry who never take their final vows, and few indeed are those who manage not only to climb the slippery pole to the even slipperier platform of Managing Director but also, mirabile dictu, to stay there. A young tadpole, just starting out, would be wise to learn the path lying ahead of her before she chooses to undertake such a harrowing journey. Let this post, then, serve both for my penance and your edification.

Planning is ramping up for the 2013 WSO Conference which will take place Saturday June 29th at Hotel Penn (401 7th Ave) in their fancier (and larger) Penn Top Ballroom.

Get One of The Last EarlyBird Tickets Today!

EarlyBird tickets are expected to sell out even earlier this year, so don't wait.

Is your student club or organization interested in attending? Group discounts are available, email [email protected] to arrange.

Visit our facebook page to see photos from last year's conference.

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