Recent Grad - Great advice
Hey everyone. I've been reading through some threads, and there is some great advice on there. Thought I'd throw out my situation and see what comes up. I graduated in March from U of Denver. It's a good private school, although name recognition obviously isn't in NYC. Finance degree, 3.8 overall 3.9 major. I moved to NYC last month and have been continuing my job search application process that I began last July. I have decent internships (ML PWM), a real estate investment firm, and a start up investment services firm. However, none are explicitly related to what I want to get into, which is an analytical role in research, IB, or IM. I have applied everywhere and have had a few interviews (GS, AllianceBernstein...) with no results. I don't think I'm great at interviewing. I'm sitting for L1 CFA in a week. Any advice on where to go from here to get into a respected position? My goal is to go back to b school in a couple years. I have an offer for admin. at a great HF, but I don't know if that would be wasting my time. I know I have more to offer than admin, but I also need a paycheck. Any thoughts...?
Work at a Big 4, a small boutique, or get a masters degree in finance from a reputable school.
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Do not give up so early in your search. Denver is a good school, my sister almost went there and I personally visited the school and had a very positive experience while I was there.
My advice to you is to keep plugging away with the online application process. I would apply to all BB's in NYC, boutiques (use the search for the listing or vault), and HF's, PE's (you probably won't get much here but worth it if you're just shooting 20 or 25 applications out every 2-3 days.
As far as your interviewing skills go, as long as you aren't retarded you should be fine. My mantra with interviews is that you have to be able to size-up your interviewer in the same amount of time he sizes you up. Have the confidence to know that he was in the same position as you, and is probably a closet dork who's insecure but pretends to be social as part of his job.
Best of luck.
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