From Boonies to Investment Banking Leader

November 7, 2011

How does someone born in the tiny town of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories of Canada (population 2,400) manage to land a job overseeing the world’s leading investment banks and financial institutions?
That’s a career path worth studying, and an inspiration to just about anyone who dreams of an investment banking career and reaching the [...]

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How to Harness the Superstar Effect to Land an Investment Banking Job or MBA Admission

October 31, 2011

Competition for investment banking jobs and admission to the top MBA schools is crushing. No doubt you’ve heard tales of candidates with gold-plated resumes and extracurricular activities who still didn’t get in.
So you may be interested in a guest article by Cal Newport, MIT Ph.D., an all-round whiz at competing against the odds, published on [...]

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MBAs Still Flocking to Investment Banking Jobs

October 24, 2011

MBA grads at the very top business schools are pursuing investment banking jobs and other finance positions in record numbers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Recruiting at the big MBA schools hit a post financial-crisis high of 39% of job-seeking 2011 grads at Harvard and Yale, 36% at Stanford and a whopping 51% at Columbia [...]

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Is Goldman a Leading Indicator for Investment Banking Jobs?

October 17, 2011

Earnings season has kicked off and all eyes are on Goldman’s quarterly report coming out this Thursday. Long regarded as the most formidable of the investment banks, some analysts predict Goldman’s profits will slump to only its second-ever quarterly loss since it went public in 1999, reports London’s Telegraph.
What does this mean for investment banking [...]

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Why Investment Banking?

October 10, 2011

It may be the most common question in an investment banking job interview. But answering it in an uncommon way will give you the edge in landing an investment banking job.
“Why do you want to work in investment banking?” The first step is avoiding, or touching only lightly on the pat answers, such as you [...]

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Investment Banking Trading Jobs Face Pay Restrictions

October 3, 2011

Investment banks would have to change the way that some of their traders are paid, if one of the proposed restrictions in the evolving Volcker rule comes to fruition, reports Businessweek.
The new rule is part of the Dodd-Frank Act, which is being crafted by regulators from five Washington agencies and could be released in October. [...]

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Investment Banking Jobs and the Value of Internships

September 26, 2011

Competition for investment banking jobs has always been fierce. And with the recent belt-tightening among the big banks and an uncertain economic outlook, the job market will only get more challenging in the near term. So those looking to break into investment banking, particularly at the entry level, need an edge.
One such edge has always [...]

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