Guides for Careers on Wall Street: Finance Interview Questions

Make Your Case: Master Consulting Case Interviews

NEW 2012 VERSION WITH 11 CONSULTING PRACTICE CASES! This 133 page guide is the only tool you will need to master consulting case interviews. This guide was created to provide prospective management consultants a thorough review of the consulting case interview process so they can successfully land that competitive position at McKinsey, Bain, BCG and other top consulting firms.

Written by a current McKinsey consultant, this publication includes not 4, 6, or 8 consulting practice cases, but a full 11 original cases found only in this WSO guide. We included 11 challenging consulting practice cases so that by the time you are done preparing with this guide, you will have mastered the art of the consulting case interview and will stand out as an exceptional candidate. This is an electronic pdf so you get everything immediately and can start studying right away.

Make Your Case was written with the following goals in mind:

Easy to Use - The most important part of consulting case interview prep is practice, practice, and more practice. The 11 original practice cases found in this guide were created from real case interviews from the top management consulting firms. Make Your Case was written with one key piece of insight that other consulting guides miss: quality consulting case practice only comes from a well-prepared interviewer. This guides simple consulting case interview format allows the most inexperienced interviewer give you the practice you need.

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• 11 Challenging Consulting Practice Cases to sharpen your case interview skills
• 5 critical frameworks to help you tackle consulting case interviews, plus 7 other frameworks reviewed in detail
• Detailed review of the consulting case interview structure and case types to expect
• 10 math fundamentals you need to know
• Plan of Action to structure your preparation
• Interviewer instructions to guide beginners on how to give you a valuable mock case interview

Make Your Case is the most efficient, essential, and easy to use consulting case interview guide on the market. If you’re tired of sorting through hundreds of pages of interview guides, look no further. WSO strips out all the unnecessary and superfluous information to give you what you need to succeed. This guide gives you the tools to deliver a structured, creative and engaging performance in an interview so that you can MAKE YOUR CASE!

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The Guide to Trading Stocks and Options

The Guide to Trading Stocks and Options will provide you much more than the strategies needed to take advantage of bullish and bearish trends. You will learn how to combine the necessary elements of strategy selection and market timing in the context of risk management, due diligence and exit strategies to form a complete system of trading. If you have ever asked yourself, "how do i trade stock options" or "what is stock option trading?", then this guide will provide a great foundation.

In this guide to trading stocks and options you will learn concepts that are vital to thriving in today's markets, such as how to profit from volatility and how to generate monthly income. Each strategy is presented with exit points, so that you will discover how to control greed and fear. And a special bonus section has been added to show you what to look for when choosing a broker so you don't pay too much in transaction fees.

You can spend years trying to learn the pitfalls of trading stock options and the stock market by trial and error. Or you can take advantage of those who have already succeeded. At WSO, we collaborated with a professional trading expert who thrived in 2008 when most people were losing money. In fact, his whole team of professional traders and trading instructors profited in 2008 from the system of trading presented in this comprehensive guide to trading stocks and options. So, you can be confident that you will be receiving top-class material from an industry expert who has taught thousands of investors and traders from almost every major region of the world.

Good luck!

Breaking into Private Equity and Venture Capital

This guide can help you land your dream job in private equity or venture capital by demystifying the notoriously opaque private equity recruiting and venture capital recruiting process. The key to private equity recruiting is to plan ahead because private equity careers are both highly competitive and formulaic. It can be virtually impossible to break into this industry without having first accessed the right private equity recruiting channels. These firms are often very lean, which means that new hires must be able to hit the ground running with minimal training. The good news is that there are many different paths into private equity from all sorts of disparate backgrounds if you are willing to be tenacious and plan ahead. This guide can help you make the right decisions in order to chart your personal course toward your private equity career.

This guide answers the following questions:

1. What do private equity firms do?
2. How do PE firms differ, and how do these differences affect their private equity recruiting practices?
3. What roles are associated with various titles, and what prior experience do they require?
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This guide provides the following data and rankings:

1. The 300 largest global private equity firms.
2. Detailed database of 70 private equity recruiting firms and venture capital recruiting firms.
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WSO Finance Internship Guide

This is a complete guide to getting through your summer finance internship on Wall Street or consulting. Whether you’re wondering what to wear, how to do your work, or how to manage your money, this 30-page guide has it all. Following this finance internship guide will make getting through the your internship as painless as possible, so that you can have the exciting, rewarding experience you deserve.

The sections of this guide include:

1. Introduction: Why this Guide Exists
2. Preliminaries: Before the Finance Internship
3. Clothing: Principles and Guidelines
4. Training Week
5. On the Job: Succeeding at Work
6. Networking and Relationship Management
7. Procedural: Performance Attribution, HR, and Expense Accounts
8. After Work: Making Money and Having Fun

You’ve already gotten the Wall Street internship. Why not spend $19.99 to make sure you can make the most of it? This guide will help you learn what you need to do to get that full-time offer, and have a great time doing it!