I’m a current first year investment banking analyst and feel like I’m not picking things up as fast as everyone else. I make a lot of little mistakes and things feel like they take a long time. Did anyone else feel like this when they started?
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Bump - incoming analyst here feeling like this will happen to me lol
does your firm have an enterprise subscription to ChatGPT and/or Copilot? With AI it has never been easier to ask questions and figure things out. What types of things are tripping you up?
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