The WSO Guides will help you land a job on Wall Street and get promoted. Select topics include technical finance interview questions, stock trading tips, navigating the venture capital and private equity market, finance internships, understanding TARP and networking for business.
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| Technical Questions - Interview Guide | Description | Testimonials | $19.99 |  |
| Behavioral Questions - Interview Guide | Description | Testimonials | $19.99 | |
| A Look Behind the Wall | Description | Testimonials | $19.99 | |
Hedge Fund Career Guide | Description | Testimonials | $29.99 | |
| The Business School Bible | Description | Testimonials | $29.99 | |
| Breaking into Private Equity & Venture Capital | Description | Testimonials | $19.99 | |
| The Guide to Trading Stocks & Options | Description | Testimonials | $19.99 | |
| The Guide to Understanding TARP | Description | Testimonials | $9.99 | |
| The Finance Internship Guide | Description | Testimonials | $9.99 | |
| The Wall Street Networking Guide | Description | Testimonials | $14.99 | |
| 2008 Year in Review | N/A | N/A | Free | Download Now |
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"I've owned several finance interview prep guides...and the publications that WSO has produced are by far the best ones I've seen." - Mez B.
"Just got the new technical investment banking interview guide. By far much better than vault guide to finance interviews. Very detailed (80+ pages) with charts, graphs, etc. I'll be reading this at least once this summer in prepping for fall IBD interviews. For $20 this is definitely the best deal out there." - banker88
"I bought the Vault Guide to Finance Interviews and there is a lot of fluff, this guide is straight to the point. Question, explanation, sample response. It was amazing. Going into my investment banking interviews and IBD superdays, I almost never got a single question that I hadn't seen before, or wasn't able to work my way through." - Scott M.
WSO Guides are now available for bulk purchase!
Career centers and student clubs interested in licensing the WSO guides should contact michael@wallstreetoasis.com for more information.
Hedge Fund Career Guide
Want a competitive advantage in the hedge fund job market?
The Hedge Fund Careers Guide gives you an inside look at the hedge fund industry to give you that advantage. This guide will walk you through all aspects of the industry and better prepare you for your job search process.
Hedge fund jobs offer an excellent career path for financial professionals. Because the hedge fund industry, a relatively young industry, is mostly made up of small private firms, it is difficult to gather information about the industry and how to get hired in a hedge fund job.
We have prepared this guide to help you learn about the hedge fund industry, uncover hedge fund job opportunities, prepare an outstanding resume, and conduct a successful job hunt.
Be Prepared.
With more than 70 pages, we cover many topics in this guide to give you a comprehensive view of Hedge Fund Careers, including:
* Hedge Fund History
* Most Common Trading Strategies
* Career Path Options
* The Hiring Process
* Preparing for an Interview
* Networking Activities
* Working with Executive Recruiters
* A List of Helpful Hedge Fund Career Resources
WSO Technical Interview Guide
Updated and revised! This 80+ page guide is a compilation of the most common technical questions encountered in Wall Street interviews. This guide was created to provide prospective financiers a thorough review for a fraction of the price of other interview guides. This is an electronic pdf so you get everything immediately and can start studying right away (unless you pay with an echeck which can take 3-4 days to verify).
New Features of the second edition include:
- 45 New Questions and Answers
- 20+ easy to read charts to help you remember what you read
- Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Basics
- One page tutorials on how to read each of the financial statements
- Current events related interview questions and explanations (including the Mortgage Crisis)
- More detailed LBO explanation
Technical questions are part of almost every finance interview. While the level of difficulty of these questions vary from firm to firm, you will undoubtedly be quizzed on technical questions in at least one round. Detailed and accurate responses will more likely impress your interviewer and help you land the job. In this difficult market and competitive industry it is important to gain any edge you can. If you put in the time to review, this guide will give you that edge.
Good luck and please let us know if you have any suggestions for improving the Technical Guide by sending an e-mail to wallstreetoasis@wallstreetoasis.com.
Types of questions that are included in this guide:
- Accounting, Finance and Valuation
- Stocks
- Bonds and Interest Rates
- Currencies
- Options and Derivatives
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Brainteasers
- and Other
Testimonials:
"Just got the new technical guide. By far much better than vault. Very detailed (80+ pages) with charts, graphs, etc. I'll be reading this at least once this summer in prepping for fall interviews. For $20 this is definitely the best deal out there." - banker88
"Just bought the guide, and I can say that it really goes into a lot of detail to introduce and expand on certain concepts." - Sisak
"I bought the Vault guide and there is a lot of fluff, this guide is straight to the point. Question, explanation, sample response. It was amazing. Going into my interviews and superdays, I almost never got a single question that I hadn't seen before, or wasn't able to work my way through." - Scott M.
“The new Wall Street Oasis Technical Guide provides questions and easy to understand answers for all the questions I typically ask when interviewing a candidate. The additional questions expand the guide, and the new charts are an added bonus for easily remembering the crucial concepts. If a student really knows all the questions in this guide, they are sure to nail the technical section of their interview.” -Vice President, Goldman Sachs, Sales and Trading
"I bought it as well! Pretty awesome simple format...walks you through the answers and then gives you an example of what exactly what to say in an interview. Breaks it down from beginner to intermediate to advanced questions for Banking and S&T." - slkyswtbllr05
"I'd like to thank you - I just bought the interview guide and it's absolutely amazing." - Goon
"The book is fantastic! It's got the questions and answers that you need to know. It also has a very easy to use format..." - Kaba Modern
"Thumbs up on technical interview guide. It was definitely helpful." - Jamie Dimon (WSO username, not the actual Jamie Dimon)
“This guide is a great resource for anyone going into finance interviews. The questions in this guide helped me successfully land the full-time job I have today! I can honestly say after preparing the questions in this guide I almost never received a question I hadn’t seen before or wasn’t ready to answer due to the suggestions the WSO guide provided.” –1st Year Analyst, Goldman Sachs, Sales and Trading
"Just got the technical guide today. Nice breakdown of beginner/intermediate/advanced questions depending on your background." - Mez
"I didn't read Wall Street Oasis Technical and Behavioral Interview guides until after my first year in my MBA program, and frankly they contained everything I had spent the last year learning to get a job on the Street. I highly recommend them to anyone preparing for an interview, finance or other. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than an MBA (not to mention faster and more to the point)." - MIT Sloan MBA, Class of 2009
"The technical guide is great. Detailed." - Fudbox
"I have found the guides to be very thorough and highly relevant for individuals looking to prepare for interviews and internships." - Junkbondswap
"I have purchased the Technical, Behavioral and Networking guides. All of them are great! I bought the Vault guides for $25 or $30 or whatever, but I think these guides are actually better." - NewIBHire27
WSO Behavioral Interview Guide
Updated and Revised! This 56 page guide is a compilation of over 100+ of the most common behavioral / fit questions encountered in Wall Street interviews with detailed advice and examples. This guide was created to provide prospective financiers a quick review for a fraction of the price of other interview guides. This is an electronic pdf so you get everything immediately and can start studying right away (unless you pay with an echeck which can take 3-4 days to verify).
New features of the second version include:
- Expanded general tips and preparation
- New questions
- Sample answers to each and every question
- More advice on how to respond
- Additional advice on asking the interviewer questions and over 30 sample questions to ask.
Fit questions are part of almost every finance interview. There are certain questions you can always expect to get but often candidates are unsure of how to best approach them. In this guide not only do we give you specific guidance but we even provide examples. That is the difference between this guide and others. A sample response of what an interviewer is looking for is provided for every question. In this difficult market and competitive industry it is important to gain any edge you can. If you put in the time to review, this guide will give you that edge.
Types of questions that are included in this guide:
- The One Question You WILL Get In Your Interview
- Industry
- About You
- Situational
- Tricky
- Other
Good luck and please let us know if you have any suggestions for improving the Behavioral Guide by sending an e-mail to wallstreetoasis@wallstreetoasis.com.
Testimonials:
"All I can say is I wish I had the Wall Street Oasis Behavioral Guide before I went into my banking interviews. I was well prepared for some of the fit questions that came my way, but others challenged me. With the extensive number of questions in this guide and the sample answers, I would have felt prepared to handle almost anything.” –2nd Year Analyst, Credit Suisse, Mergers and Acquisitions
"I have purchased the Technical, Behavioral and Networking guides. All of them are great! I bought the Vault guides for $25 or $30 or whatever, but I think these guides are actually better." - NewIBHire27
"I've owned several interview prep guides, this being my second WSO guide (first was for Technical Interviews), and the products that WSO has produced are by far the best ones I've seen.
The Behavioural Guide covers most, if not all, of the questions you'll get in an interview (I recently interviewed with an elite boutique, some of the questions I was asked were almost identical to the ones in the guide). I will tell you up front that you should not expect the "perfect" answer to each and every single fit question you'll be asked, because the guide does not provide them. What it does provide, however, is the FRAMEWORK that you need to formulate your own, genuine, answer -- this is what interviewers are looking for!
Overall, I am very satisfied. Combine this with the tech guide, and you'll be set for 90-95% of the questions thrown your way during interviews." - Mez B.
"I didn't read Wall Street Oasis Technical and Behavioral Interview guides until after my first year in my MBA program, and frankly they contained everything I had spent the last year learning to get a job on the Street. I highly recommend them to anyone preparing for an interview, finance or other. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than an MBA (not to mention faster and more to the point)." - MIT Sloan MBA, Class of 2009
"The behavioral guide was just as useful as the technical guide. A lot of people don't focus as much on the behavioral section of interviews, but interviewers really have an idea of what they want to hear in answers. This guide provided great tips on words to mention, stories to tell, and gave an example of a "good" response for almost every question." - Scott M.
A Look Behind the Wall
After over one year in development and much anticipation we are excited to finally announce the release of A Look Behind the Wall: An Overview of Six Wall Street Career Paths. WallStreetOasis.com has collaborated with its most knowledgeable users to provide one of the most detailed, entertaining and insightful publications to hit Wall Street in years.
Even given the current economic climate, Wall Street remains a top destination for college students and young professionals. Compared to the alternatives, exit opportunities and career paths for Wall Streeters are still compelling. Recent graduates with Wall Street jobs still top the compensation charts for their class, and it is these same individuals who are most likely to be found in the nation’s top MBA programs a few years later. Thus, while the business models of many firms are currently being stress-tested, not much has changed for the ambitious college student. The most competitive, challenging, and financially-rewarding jobs are still to be found on Wall Street.
This guide doesn’t purport to have all the answers, nor does it attempt to make generalizations about the industry. Instead, each of our contributors has offered a personal and candid look into their work lives: how they got there, what it’s like, and the traits and skills that have been necessary for them to succeed. Your mileage may vary, of course; details will differ between firms, years, and geographic areas. However, our contributors’ stories provide data points that should be helpful as you do your own analysis. Included in the guide are chapters on investment banking, private equity, venture capital, private wealth management, hedge funds and management consulting.
If you want more details or advice, many of our contributors (as well as other Wall Street pros) can be found on the WallStreetOasis forums. If they’re not slammed and you ask politely, they may be able to help you out. And whether you’re looking for your first job or a new job: keep us posted!
Best of luck,
The team at WallStreetOasis.com
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.
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 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. 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 and please send us testimonials to wallstreetoasis@wallstreetoasis.com!
The Business School Bible
The MBA has become one of the most sought-after degrees amongst employees and employers alike. Attending one of the world's top programs continues to be extremely competitive as the degree program continues to attract an ever-increasing variety of highly accomplished professionals from all walks of life.
The Business School Bible: How To Get Into the Top MBA Programs and What to Expect gives you over 500+ pages of practical, hands-on advice that answers the six fundamental questions:
- Which top business school should I apply to or attend?
- What do admissions officers look for in applicants?
- How competitive am I compared to other applicants?
- How do I put together the best possible application?
- What is life like as a business school student?
- What kinds of career paths are available to MBA graduates?
The Business School Bible includes:
- 20 sample essays
- Sample information package sent to referees and sample recommendation letter
- Waitlist strategy and sample waitlist letter
- Sample resume
- Post-MBA career profiles
- and MUCH more
Note: this is an ebook / pdf so you can start reading as soon as you download it, but no hard copy will be sent.
Want to take a peek before buying? Take a look at this PDF of the Table of Contents by clicking here.
Breaking into Private Equity and VC
This guide can help you land your dream job in private equity or venture capital by demystifying the notoriously opaque private equity and venture capital recruiting process. The key to breaking into private equity is to plan ahead because private equity recruiting is both highly competitive and formulaic. It can be virtually impossible to break into this industry without having first accessed the right recruiting channels. Private equity 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 you dream job.
This guide answers the following questions:
1. What do private equity firms do?
2. How do private equity firms differ, and how do these differences affect their recruiting practices?
3. What roles are associated with various titles, and what prior experience do they require?
4. What compensation is typical for various firm types, titles, and years of experience?
5. What steps should I take to help me break into private equity if I am a: High school student? Undergraduate student? Pre-MBA? MBA student?
6. How do I make effective use of private equity recruiters?
7. How do I evaluate and compare offers?
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.
3. Top undergraduate programs for breaking into private equity, investment banking, and consulting.
4. Top investment banking, consulting, and other analyst programs for breaking into private equity.
5. Top business schools for breaking into private equity.
Testimonials:
"This Wall Street Oasis guide offers its readers an accurate and comprehensive road map to a career in private equity, and I would highly recommend it to all of my candidates.” - Jill Pierce, Founder, CarterPierce
"Daniel Sheyner has written an extremely comprehensive, accurate, and informative synopsis of the private equity industry and getting in its iron doors. It's the best report of its kind that I have seen.” - Jason Kanner, Managing Partner, BSD Associates
“This Wall Street Oasis guide is the most informative I’ve seen for breaking into private equity. There is an abundance of information in here and, if utilized correctly, should make the task more manageable.” - Michael Geglia, Recruiting Manager, Permanent Solutions Group
"As a general canvassing of the PE recruiting practices, this Wall Street Oasis guide does an excellent job of providing high level insight into how principal investment firms time, evaluate, and make offers." - Nick Medica, Alternative Investments, Forrer & Assc.
"Wall Street Oasis has created a must-read guide for anyone looking to gain an understanding of what it takes to break into private equity. This is a valuable resource that will undoubtedly help candidates prepare and execute strategies to secure their dream jobs within the private equity industry." - Kevin Dailey, Partner, Juno Search
"The Wall Street Oasis private equity & venture capital guide is an excellent overview of how to land you dream job in private equity. In short, it summarizes what it takes to get your foot in the door." - Natalie Matushevsky, Managing Consultant, Michael Page Int.
"This Wall Street Oasis guide is a well thought out and comprehensive guide for any professional considering a career in private equity." - Robert Zebrowski, Principal, Hammer Haley
The Guide to Understanding TARP
Want to impress your colleagues and interviewers with how much you know about this $700 Billion (and counting) behemoth of legislation? Curious where all your tax dollars are going? Then this guide is for you. Check out the Free Sample Chapter.
In order to foster intelligent debate on the relative merits of TARP, it is first necessary to present an unbiased overview of the plan in plain English. To that end, we have endeavored to present the facts in an orderly, understandable format.
This guide is a primer on the genesis and execution of the Troubled Assets Relief Program as it is set forth in Public Law 110-343 approved on October 3, 2008. The program falls under the authority of the more commonly known Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. This guide will highlight the salient points of the plan, how it has been implemented thus far, and what can be expected from this authority in the future.
It is our hope that this guide will leave you with a greater understanding of the mechanisms of the government that were allowed to intervene when the mechanisms of the market appeared to be on the verge of failure. This guide was painstakingly researched over a period of almost five months, and it presents the facts, the hard figures, and the expert projections contained within the well over 1,000 pages of documentation and interviews that were compiled to produce it.
This 50+ page guide includes the following sections:
1. Introduction
2. Background on TARP
3. Housing Bubble
4. A TARP is Born
5. The Evolution of TARP
6. Participation
7. Repayment
8. Oversight
9. Stressed Out
10. Controversy
11. Who’s Who of TARP
12. Confessions of a TARP Intern
13. Appendix: TARP Recipient List
WSO Internship Guide
This is a complete guide to getting through your summer internship in finance 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 guide will make getting through the summer 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 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 internship. Why not spend $9.99 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!
WSO Networking Guide
UPDATED VERSION: This 27 page guide is a thorough introduction into the fine art of networking. Worried you aren't sending the right Thank You note? This guide can help with specific examples. Wondering how to broaden your search and improve your chances of landing that coveted interview? Then again, this guide is for you. As a reminder, this guide is an electronic pdf so you get everything immediately and can start reading right away. Also included with this guide is the WSO Resume Template to help make sure the formatting of your resume is clean and professional as well as the WSO Contact Organizer. This is an excel document where you can enter in the contact information for all your networking contacts. Then, you can sort by anything like location, firm, name, etc, to help keep everything organized.
The sections of this guide include:
- The Art of Networking
- Networking Basics
- All the RIGHT Stuff
- All the WRONG Stuff
- Cover Letter and Resume
- You Have 90 Seconds to Sell Yourself
- Social Networking… No We Are Not Talking About Facebook and MySpace
- Contacting Your Network
- Informational Interviews
- Information Sessions
- Questions to Ask
- Follow Up and Thank You Notes
- Business Etiquette
- Protecting Yourself Online
Good luck and please let us know if you have any suggestions for improving the Networking Guide. Please also send us testimonials to wallstreetoasis@wallstreetoasis.com.
Testimonials:
"I have purchased the Technical, Behavioral and Networking guides. All of them are great! I bought the Vault guides for $25 or $30 or whatever, but I think these guides are actually better. Well worth the $..., I would have even paid more." - NewIBHire27
"Wall Street Oasis' Networking Guide covered the most salient lessons I've learned from reading multiple sales books but in a condensed, no BS format. I try to live by the lessons it describes and the more I do, the better I do..." - MIT Sloan MBA, Class of 2009
2008 Year in Review
Please click below for a FREE download of Edmundo Braverman's 2008 Year in Review.
