Monday @Mentions March 10, 2014

Thread of the Week:

It was no contest this week as @"big unit" knocked it out of the park with Young Money? Perception vs Reality on Wall Street. He goes into his experience starting at a bulge bracket during the meltdown and points out a few of the misconceptions that exist today about the new generation on Wall Street. The post earned him 31 Silver Bananas, 6 Facebook Likes, and 3 Tweets. Excellent work, man!

Comment of the Week:

Comment of the Week this week goes to @"D M" for his insights into the exit opps in corporate finance. His comment earned him 5 Silver Bananas.

Caption Contest Winner:

Congratulations to @"danin650" for being this week's Caption Contest winner. You can see his prize winning caption here. Enjoy your WSO T-shirt!

Career Counselor:

This category is normally awarded to posts, but this week it goes to a two-way tie and they were both comments on the post Why Would Anyone Go into Consulting? Both @"d1stance" and @"devildog2067" had excellent responses, and both garnered 5 Silver Bananas apiece.

Most Active Monkeys:

@"zeroblued" was one busy primate this week, racking up 214 banana points, and @"WallStreetOracle" wasn't far behind with 172. Rounding out the triple-digit club this past week were @"big unit" and @"Simple As..." with 140 and 127 banana points, respectively. Nice week, y'all.

February Blogger of the Month:

@"Big Unit" (runner up @"Ben_KickAssAcademy")

Big welcome from all of us at WSO to our newest bloggers:

@"Saad Qazi"
@brassmunkey
@Chimp_and_jeez
@aruniipseeta

Thanks for joining the blogging team!

New WSO Certified Users:

I wanted to take the space here to thank and congratulate the new Certified Users from the past week. Welcome to the club. Some of these are new members, but all have confirmed that they work in the indicated industry at the level selected on their profile. All Certified Users have a yellow star next to their usernames when posting in the forums, so you all know which sources you can trust the most. As WSO Certified Users, they get i) 3 months free to the WSO Job Board ($45 Value), ii) access to the private Certified User chat room to network with other professionals (priceless) and iii) a free ticket to attend the 2014 WSO Annual Conference in New York on June 28 ($200 Value!). Without further ado:

Investment Banking
@irishpoker03 - Generalist - 1st Year Analyst
@MrLondon - Generalist - 2nd Year Analyst
@tzipser - Generalist - Vice President

Equity Research
@Determined - 1st Year Associate

Private Equity
@Ukon - 2nd Year Associate

Hedge Fund
@Dkhouri - Other - Vice President

Sales & Trading
@kahuna4637 - Other - 1st Year Analyst
@CtrlAltEnd - Fixed Income - 3rd+ Year Associate
@IESHC – other

Consulting
@Egsc - Consultant

Asset Management
@Chimp_and_jeez - Other - 2nd Year Analyst

Real Estate
@Thehouseguy - Commercial - Partner

corporate finance
@wildcat316 - CFO

Others
@DataFox - Other - Executive Vice President
@Black Knight - Other - 3rd+ Year Analyst

Are you a working professional and you're interested in joining the WSO Certified User club? E-mail [email protected] and [email protected] your username and send a link to your LinkedIn profile.