Did I screw myself by getting a master's in engineering?
I'm mostly interested in portfolio management / research type careers. Unfortunately, I think my background is not really hitting the right chords with the recruiters. In hindsight, maybe I should have went for a MA Econ or MS Finance. I don't want to go back to school (b-school), but is it a must?
masters recruiting for front office finance jobs(ST, PM, IB, Research) is pretty lacking even for the masters in econ, math, finance guys
It feels like my resume gets tossed right into the trash can once they see that my educational background is in Engineering
If I had done Finance or Econ or Acct, maybe I would get more interviews
Where did you do your masters at?
Not really- just spend a few years in industry and get an MBA.
Got interviews (no offer) in S&T with Masters in Engineering, through both networking and on campus. Just make sure your interest is conveyed (I took some MSF level Finance courses, had some neat math classes) and obviously network (WSO basic). I ended up in consulting.
Engineering Master's - am I fucked? (Originally Posted: 11/15/2012)
I'm a first year Master's student in the engineering school at Columbia (did my undergrad at a non-target) and looking for a summer internship. I can't even apply to 90% of the internships on my school's OCR website because they're mostly restricted to juniors. But I can still apply through the company websites. Will my application even be considered despite the fact that I can't apply through OCR, or am I pretty much fucked?
I'm applying for consulting and finance internships btw and have no interest in doing IT or being a quant.
Network outside of OCR. Use the Columbia alumni network.
Network and apply directly. You're in NYC, you should be a member of many clubs, particularly campus business clubs. If anything, you should be making 2-3 contacts per week with company hr reps through your campus involvement.
Fellow engineering grad student here. Just network and apply online. The only reason I got MBB consulting interviews was probably because my resume got flagged by employees internally. Also got some finance FT interviews without going through OCR even though the firm recruited through OCR. Had I realized I was interested in finance or consulting earlier, I would've joined the business clubs.
Also, not sure how the OCR system works at your school but at mine, if you just change your profile settings slightly (like take off your graduation year) it'll allow you to submit your resume for other things.
Are you in the financial engineering program at Columbia? I know some people who got a summer internship with a 3.1 GPA. But they were in this program.
Using Masters of Engineering to break in (Originally Posted: 05/15/2012)
This is my first time posting on this site although I've been lurking on the WSO forums for about six months now.
I'm an engineering student at a complete non-target state school (even for my major's top recruiters) finishing up my junior year now. I'm really interested in either going the S&T route at a BB or MBB consulting upon graduation, so I'm getting ready to network this summer so I'll be positioned well for next year's recruiting cycle. I'm the top student in my class and I'll have had multiple internships at multinational corporations in R&D and corporate engineering. However, I know it's really tough out there and the closest anyone from my school to working for a BB is operations... so I'm getting really worried.
In case I don't get recruited next season, I thought of applying to 1 year M.Eng programs in Ivy League schools (Cornell, Princeton, etc.) since my impression is that these are relatively easy to get into compared to their PhD programs. Would I then be given the same recruiting opportunities and OCR as the undergrads get to apply for analyst roles at MBB consulting and BB's? If all the MIT engineering grads are going into finance, then I figured an elite M.Eng should have an equal if not better chance. If it will only take one year and ~50K to get an ivy-league name on my resume and get my dream job, this sounds like a very attractive opportunity.
Can you guys comment on this idea and the actual difficulty of getting into one of these masters programs? Thank you very much.
I'd like to know a bit more about this as well because I'm in a similar situation, except I am interested in pursuing a MSFE. My top choices are Columbia and Carnegie Mellon.
bump.. can anyone provide insight?
I definitely am interested as well. As a computer science major who doesn't want to go into programming, I'm a little nervous.
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