Hi Sir/Madam,
I'm an international student. I got admitted to Kellogg MBA (1 year program), and I also got a full-ride scholarship from a local bank (I am not their current employee). I wanna pursue career in investment management post-MBA and investing has always been my passion. I have 5 year experience in equity investing; 3 years in sell-side (as an institutional equity salesperson at a BB broker) and the latest 2 years in buy-side as an equity analyst at a local AM (AUM > USD10bn). Honestly, I don't have problem with picking/pitching stocks (can show my previous performance to recruiters).
If there is a chance that I can find asset management job (HF/MF) in the US or in SG/HK, I will not take the scholarship offered by a local bank (I have to work for them for 2 years in exchange for the scholarship. But I can also pick to work for their AM subsidiary).
So I wanna hear your opinion on:
Possibility that an international student with my profile will get IM/HF/MF job overseas, mainly SG/HK, post-Kellogg (a non-finance school)? I heard that it's super tough for int. students and the IM recruiting process is unstructured/ mainly via networking. Note that I got in the 1 year program with no formal internship.
P.S.I don't have CFA / I cannot read or speak mandarin/ I got dinged at all other top MBA schools
A few of my undergrad classmates, from a local university, who went to M7 MBA also could not find IM job overseas during the pandemic. So I'm not so confident that I will. So why take risk and selfpay(+student loan) for MBA then not get any overseas IM offers in the end... in this case I should just accept a local bank scholarship offer and drop my dream of working at global fund.
Thank you so much for your answers in advance!
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