Bear Sterns is hiring

You missed interviews for full-time jobs, that was in the fall (I went through recruiting as a senior this year too).

Let me ask you, do you know why you want to do i-banking?

professors have been helpful with giving me resources and describing to me more about the field, but the actual act of finding a job is the place where I am coming up short.

hahah im kinda scared since i still don't know what i am doing after i graduate =/

it's nearly impossible to get one of these types of jobs at the big firms without being from one of the Ivy Leagues/Stanford/Duke. If they don't recruit at your school, you need to stand out a ton at your school for them to even look at you. that's not just taking a few classes and posting a good GPA in them either fwiw

as for boutique firms, idk much really but you probably could google them and find out. a lot of the recruitment process already happened though I believe

 

Originally Posted by FenwayKing

Ivy Leagues/Stanford/Duke

Sick mini brag.

Other schools do well too. Besides business schools which you left out, Carnegie Mellon, Cal Tech, MIT, Rice, UTexas, UMich, Georgetown and other top non-ivy league non-stanford, non-DUKE schools do well too.

But again, anyone with intelligence should do trading

 

Originally Posted by Leet8s

Sick mini brag.

Other schools do well too. Besides business schools which you left out, Carnegie Mellon, Cal Tech, MIT, Rice, UTexas, UMich, Georgetown and other top non-ivy league non-stanford, non-DUKE schools do well too.

But again, anyone with intelligence should do trading

def true, I think all of those can compete for sure with the first few kids, but the further from top-5 status your school is, the more and more you have to be like a superstar at your school to have a chance imo. MIT/CalTech and places like that are very elite and you probably have a leg up on most schools actually. And yeah I was thinking undergrad, not business schools obv. I know kids at Duke with 3.9 GPAs who've been rejected from multiple banks.

I'm not going into ibanking or anything, just have a lot of friends who are/were in the process

 

Originally Posted by rohanzsta

Yeah, I'm pretty bummed I missed all of the fall recruiting, but I had this "i-banking revelation" over winter break, so unfortunately i'm a bit behind everyone else in the recruiting process (I was looking into consulting before).

And lol @ that diagram, I know it is going to be hell for me, but I really like pushing my body to it's limits. Finance (investments in particular) have definitely been my favorite courses at Berkeley, so I am ready to sacrifice a few of my "younger years" in life in hopes of a secure future.

If you answer that question with that answer in an interview they would show you to the door.

 

Originally Posted by Unforseen

If you answer that question with that answer in an interview they would show you to the door.

lol ... i would never say any of that in an actual interview.

 

Originally Posted by rohanzsta

care to elaborate?

because in i-banking you are a mindless drone and you have no intelligible input.

in trading you are making decisions which will directly win or lose money and it requires a lot more thought, strategy, understanding of markets, etc. if you want to be involved in the markets do trading

Go Bears!

Sorry to say, you completely missed the window this past fall, buddy. Each of the major banks hires maybe 5-10 people from Cal in that interview session (that was in 07, not sure if thats true today). There is no "make-up" and you'll likely have to wait till this fall to recruit. I would recommend doing an internship in the meanwhile and/or extra classes during the summer sessions. (Start with CS because I know of a second year analyst @ the SF office who is turning down his offer to go work elsewhere, hopefully my company.)

oh and lol @ fenway's diss of public institutions. so far off base. thanks for the chuckle tho.

A little off track, but I'm also a finance major and I've been interested in trading. Can anyone tell me what the job chain is like in that certain area (for instance what would you typically start as and eventually what you would get promoted too, etc.) Also, who here has a job that's related to finance and actually enjoy it? What is your position and what do you do?

 

Originally Posted by elendil

Watch the money masters(google it) before you consider this IMO

fascinating series - anyone else seen this?