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Please Roast My Resume - Graduating Senior Not Getting Any Traction
Graduating this spring from a decent Canadian university. Don't have any internships, mainly because I wanted to hold on to my year-round part-time jobs. My CGPA is 3.2. Started sending my resume to Canadian firms through LinkedIn a couple months ago, but not getting any reaction. Is there anything...
Favorite Newsletters to Impress During Interviews
What are your favorite newsletters to stay up to date on market news/gather unique insights to impress during interviews? If you're starting to recruit for banking or consulting roles here are some of my favorites: Daily Peel ( https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/media/newsletters… ): Shoutout WSO...
VC and Business Analytics Extern Advice
I recently received a VC and BA remote externship at a large computer/tech company (Think HP, Dell, and/or Intel). My past two experiences have been in commercial banking and mortgages. I am currently an incoming sophomore in college and I go to a somewhat unknown state school. I have a 3.90 GPA and...
Incoming College Freshman that needs help
Hello Monkeys, I am currently getting ready to start my first semester of college. I will be attending a BIG 10 school. As a college student and want to be well rounded. I want to be a good student, focus on my health, network, and have a good social life. I did not get into the business school...
Vietnam Investment banking M&A Analyst jumping to Singapore Investment banking
Hi, I'm a Vietnamese graduating from a non-target university in the US with 1+ years experience working in M&A investment banking boutique in Vietnam. I plan to apply for a Singaporean investment banking position in 1 year (so totally 2+ years working experience in IB Vietnam). I am taking the first...
How many people in CF have CMA
I am contemplating between a CPA or CMA. I heard that the CMA is more tailored towards corporate finance, but how many people in CF have CMA.? Do you think it is helpful in terms of knowledge, career opportunities, salary, etc.?
ER from Big 4 Business Valuation (advisory)?
Hi everyone, I'm finishing up my senior year in undergrad and have accepted a position with a Big 4 firm for advisory, business valuation. I'm excited about the opportunity to shape up my modeling, accounting, and analysis skills but I understand much of it will be a glorified audit role. I've...
Landing an internship that can lead me to investment banking
What kind of internship should I go for if I am an accounting major with no previous experience? I go to a non-target school (Montclair State University), but have a 3.7 GPA. My only experience has been working as a back of house associate at a retail store. Need some righteous advice
Approaching 30 and lost
I am turning 30 this month and looking back now I realize how little of my goals I have achieved (professionally and personally) I make around $150k a year, hardly enough to make a decent living in Manhattan. Not in IBD but in a similar role. In a good really work week, I have barely enough time to...
Any advice for aspiring Financial Analyst?
Hello all, I am new to this forum and well, quite frankly new to a lot of things regarding finance. So, what I wanted to talk about is tips/advice for undergraduate students like myself looking to get into a Financial Analyst career. I am currently an incoming sophomore at DePaul University and...
What makes a great job in finance?
Is it the salary, prestige, meritocracy, location, work/life balance, benefits (such as health care), stock options, career opportunities, getting to live abroad or anything else?
On the off chance Investment Banking doesn't work out for me
Hey guys, I’m currently a Junior majoring in Finance at DePaul University in Chicago. It’s a decent B-school if anything maybe even C. This research should have been done a lot earlier, but untill recently I’ve been a subpar student and wasting my life away. I’m ready for a change now. I...
Changing Careers from Accounting (US ed) to Finance - I'm Mildly Terrified
So, I have made my decision to transition from accounting with less than a year of work experience to finance. I went to a target school in US, but graduated with a BS in Accounting. Admittedly, I did not know much about career opportunities when I first entered my business school, but I knew I...
How to get a M&A/corporate finance Job
Dear all, I met an alumni at my university Alumni Summit in Hong Kong. He is a managing director on M&A sector of a famous conglomerate, which is very strong on cross-border M&A . I hold a bachelor degree from Australia, and have less than two years working experience in Shanghai and Beijing of a...
Interactive Brokers Interview Test
Has anyone taken their math, probability, market test? Any advice on what I should go over? Any advice would help!
Audit to Finance PhD
Looking for some long term career advice - I’ve worked full time in a smaller office at a big 4 for almost a year (I interned before that). I really like my coworkers and the management in my office is good, based on feedback I am a “high performer”. I have worked on both public and private...
ADVICE ON NEXT MOVE FROM FUND ACCOUNTING
Hi, im currently writing to ask for advice/opinions on potential directions I could move from where I currently am in my career. I graduated about a year and a half ago with my bachelors in accounting and landed a job as a fund accountant in New Jersey. I took the job initially because I needed the...
Stuck in Corporate Banking - Fighting Complacency
Monkeys - WSO has always been good to me and I've done my best to give back via useful advice. Hoping to call on you all once again for some much needed advice. Background: Junior credit VP at a large regional bank, ~4 years industry experience + 2yrs non-finance experience, ~125k all-in comp, t20...
Master Exchange Europe () MSc Finance
Hello everyone, Currently I am doing a Master in Finance at the University of Amsterdam and would like to do an additional master exchange semester and have narrowed my choices to EDHEC, Dauphine, Bocconi. Other options include Sciencepo, LUISS and Lausanne. What do you guys think would be my best...
2 job offers, which would you take?
I'm going to try to make this as unbiased as possible, and if you can give me your opinion on which job offer you would take that would be really helpful. Some key pointers before I begin are: - My family currently lives in Miami, and if I worked there as well I could potentially have zero expenses...
Should I go into finance?
Hi, sorry if this isn't in the right forum, this is my first time on this site. I am in high school and have recently been considering going to business school and trying to get a degree in finance. Honestly, I am interested in the finance aspect of business school just to earn enough money to pay...
Big 4 Audit to Big 4 M&A FDD to...
Hey everyone, first post on the site. I have been reading A LOT of the content on WSO so thank you all for your contributions. I am currently working at a Big 4 in audit (have CPA). I have been working for 2 years and a couple months and was promoted to Senior. Like many WSOers before me I've...
Don't know where to go/want
A friend of Mine who graduated in '12 with a quantitative degree and then took 3 years off to go to China to start his own business (small business and working as accounting manager on the side) and eventually got tired of the Chinese market and went back to the US to get his MS in accounting. Now...
PWM internship description
This summer I worked a PWM internship at BB in NYC . I did all the usual tasks that pretty much every PWM intern does (filing, maintaining databases, tracking portfolio performance). My question is, how can I best describe this internship on my resume where it is somewhat interesting while not...
What is your opinion on a Masters in Finance program? Can anyone share their experiences?
Contemplating on pursuing a masters in finance right after my undergrad. Seems like a good experience and a way to solidify my foundation in finance and investments. Anyone have any good/bad experiences?
Second year Community College student looking to transfer to business school
Hey everybody new here and looking to get some insight and recommendations for continuing my education and getting the best job placement possible. (In whatever sector I ultimately end up in) Currently entering my second year at a community college located in Central NJ. I am currently studying...
Canadian CPA Student wanting to break into IB
So I have decided to give this forum a try and see if it can help me break into IB . Brief background about myself; I am a CPA student in an accredited Canadian university. Unfortunately, I discovered my passion for M&A and CF in my last year of undergrad studies in accounting. I wish I knew more...
PwC Hiring Freeze in Canada?
Hey, so I was interviewed for a position in RAS at PwC Toronto and soon after there was a hiring freeze. Does anyone have experience with hiring freeze at a Big 4? How long can it last?
Recent Grad - Fund Accountant Looking to Expand Career.
Greetings. I am a recent graduate from a non-target New England business school (Bryant University) with a BSBA and double concentration in Finance and Economics. I have recently accepted a job at BBH (Brown Brothers Harriman) in Boston as a fund accountant. I realize that this is a back office job,...
Recent Grad - Fund Accountant Looking to Expand Career
Greetings. I am a recent graduate from a non-target New England business school with a BSBA and double concentration in Finance and Economics. I have recently accepted a job at BBH (Brown Brothers Harriman) in Boston as a fund accountant. I realize that this is a back office job, but I know that the...
Career shift for 27yo consultant/accountant to break into investing
Hi All, Long time lurker, first time poster. I was hoping I could get some advice on a career change into the investing world (broadly speaking, but ideally PE / HF / ER ) or even banking (but probably just as a conduit to investing). I've been interested in investing since I was in high school and...
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