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A week or two ago there was an article written about how your weight might inversely effect you during the hiring process. During the conversation I dropped some personal information about me losing 130 (now 135 pounds). I was PM’d by somebody asking me to tell my story. Well I have some free...

Here's my story: I will be graduating this semester from a non-target university, majoring finance and accounting, with a decent gpa (3.5 up). I started networking last summer, searching for that IBD full time offer. I was even considering delaying my graduation for one semester with the...

This site has really been an amazing help along my career path and I felt that it was necessary to try and give back to the community and hopefully give some hope to the fellow non targets out there that are trying to break in. I also wanted to thank everyone on this site who have been extremely...

I just wanted to thank this community for the wealth of free advice that actually does exist on this site. Coming from a non-target and an under-represented US geography, I started at a boutique advisory shop where the experience I was getting was only loosely relevant to what my peers at more name...

Throughout the past few years I've noticed that some of my closest relationships have deteriorated as it became more clear that I was on a fast-track in Finance while others were languishing with bad grades and not-so-prestigious (or non-existent) internships. I knew something to this...

Primates! Today I'm going to tell you a little story. No, it's not the "walk me through your resume" story that must have precisely 3-4 jumps, with a positive and negative at each juncture that logically progresses to a career in IB. This is the story of how I was finally...

I've been lurking for a long time and found this site extremely helpful from a job hunt perspective - not just for ibanking, mbb, etc. All of advice I've read on this site also obviously translates across all industries and I'm very thankful for this community. Hope this can be...

Hi, Just wanted to share my story... I'm from a top target (Europe), with strong grades, but I'm so lazy when it comes to filling forms its ridiculous... Basically I only applied to S&T summer analyst positions at : -Morgan Stanley -JPM 2 days before the deadline in a hurry -DB...

This is an absolute must read if you're from a non-target! I will try to detail out as much of my journey as I can. This post is kind of long overdue; however, I feel like it's better late than never. (Even if it's really poorly...

What's going on everyone? First of all, I've been browsing this site for about a year now and it's helped me a lot. I'm graduating from a "non-target" school and major in History and have a overall 2.9 GPA. I figured there was no way I was getting into finance even...

Just wanted to post this up here; thanks for all the help WSO! I dropped out of high school and spent two years working as a shift supervisor at Starbucks. I went to community college for a year and then managed to transfer to a target business program. I worked a non traditional internship...

Hey guys, with recruiting season almost over I am happy/lucky to say that I have received an SA offer at a BB and have to give lots of thanks to the WSO community. (trolls and all) I was just a no-name, directionless monkey a few years ago and now I have a very solid start to a career that I am...