Using Academic Research Experience to Try My Hand at Applying For Equity Research Roles
Hey, so I'm a 4th Year student at a target school studying Economics and I was hoping I could get an answer to the question I've got. My resume is primarily dominated by research I've done in Economics under professors at various schools in my university. A lot of my work consisted of coding (Stata, Python, R) as well as Literature Reviews and I was wondering if these experiences would be comparable to what I might expect to see in Equity Research or if I even have the requisite skills TO be able to break into Equity Research. I should mention that I've got about 1.4 years of research experience
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In summary, your academic research experience, especially your coding skills and analytical abilities, can be highly relevant to equity research roles. Focus on networking, tailoring your resume, and preparing for both technical and behavioral interview questions to improve your chances of breaking into the field.
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Python is used for scraping and datasets slightly too big for Excel but overall I would expect what you're doing and what ER is are totally unrelated terms that happen to share a word in common. You could absolutely work now to get the ER skills, but they're not really related to what you're doing now.
Here's an indicative task we would give an interviewer: given a three statement model for our company as of 1Q and the 2Q press release, update the model for all the actuals and revise the forecasts, then write up a page of bullets about what you learned this quarter. Does that sound at all like what you're doing now?
Sort of? I remember doing a project where we were looking at the stock price fluctuations over a span of 20 years and I was tasked with conducting a literature review to summarize the econometrics (SEC regulations are a bitch in regression analysis). From there I calculated the daily and weekly returns of that same stock to get a better view of what’s happening to the overall stock price. So I don’t imagine this is too different? I’m not incredibly sure though.
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