4/17/17 - Monday @Mentions

Happy Monday WSO!

Upcoming podcasts, webinars and webinar rewinds on the WSO Frontpage (replays of old webinars you may have missed, free for 24 hours):

Podcast: Trying to impress others vs. trying to do what’s right for me - Andres Engel -- 4/18/17
Rewind - Lower MM PE Investment Case Walkthrough + Q&A – 12am EDT, 4/19/2017
Webinar: Day in the Life of a Natural Gas Trader -- 7pm ET, 4/23/17
Webinar: Equity Valuation and How a CFA would grade it -- 6pm EDT, 4/24/2017
Webinar: IB Case Interview: A Hands-on Example -- 7pm EDT, 4/26/17
WSO Happy Hour: Wed 4/26, 7:00pm @5th and Mad
Webinar: RE Private Equity Case -- 7pm ET, 4/27/17

Posts of the Week:

New WSO Podcast Launched! Subscribe Today by @WallStreetOasis.com". 16 SB’s.Take offer in diff city to get over a girl? by @Parked on Park". 19 SB’s.
How NOT to Network by @Wallstreetneversleeps". 18 SB’s.
Wall Street vs. Entrepreneurship by @Dr. Dres". 7 SB’s.

Discussion Topics of the Week:

Man dragged off United flight by @JTH". 170 comments.
Asian name on resume by @laughamout”. 112 comments.
Americans are failing drug testing by @Wu_Tang Financial". 56 comments.
Google partners with Goldman Sachs in automating Investment Banking by @F430". 50 comments.

AMA of the Week:

CFA Charterholder who left finance and joined the Army—AMA by @AlexCook”. 34 comments.

Comment of the Week:

This comment by @dmw86" in the post “Investing in Private Equity”.

Most Active Monkeys in the past 30 days:

1. @TNA" 1491, 2. @Sil" 1054, and 3. @flying_snow" with 789.

See where you rank here.

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 3 months free to the WSO Job Board ($45 Value).  Without further ado:

Investment Banking
@NoTime" - Industry/Coverage - 2nd Year Analyst

Private Equity
@Damian210" - Growth Equity - 2nd Year Associate

Equity Research
@deathTouch" - 1st Year Associate

Real Estate
@Stump" - Commercial - 1st Year Associate
@SilverBullet17" - Commercial - Investment Analyst
@Ricky Sargulesh" - Commercial - Other
@HandsOfMidas" - Commercial - Other

Other
@Craig McDermott" - Other - Vice President

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.

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