What and where to start looking for a job?

So obviously everyone has to start somewhere.
I finished up my finance bachelors and want to get into trading and investment banking or management.

Should i apply for an assistant job and try to move up and learn from there?
Should i go to a trading school?

also my strongest suit is sales and communication i dont know exactly how that can help but thought id mention it.

PS the reason i really like trading is 1 the $ and, 2 we had a class competition in economics out of all 54 students everyone had to set up an online stock portfolio on yahoo (no real money) and by the end of the semester i won the entire class.

 

Trading academy school?

If you want a job I'd go to a top Master of Finance program or PHD in economics. Unless you came from a target school for recruiting.

"by the end of the semester i won the entire class."

Beat the entire class .. You can also say dominated, embarassed, however, you can't use won in that sentence.

 

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