Need help with the all important Follow up and networking? This sheet has contacts and helpful instructions for all of that.
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Mergers & Inquisitions and Breaking Into Wall Street are dedicated to helping students, entry-level professionals, and career changers break into investment banking and private equity, advance on the job, and master valuation and financial modeling.
We've highlighted two of their most helpful videos below. Check out the rest of their channel for additional tutorials.
In this lesson, you'll learn get a blueprint that will let you tell your "story" effectively and win offers. Why Does This Matter So Much?
1) Your story sets the tone for the entire interview, and a poor first impression is impossible to overcome.
2) Interviewers often make offer / no offer decisions subconsciously within the first 2-3 minutes, based 100% on your story.
3) It's easier to fix your "story" than to "fix" your lack of finance/accounting knowledge. We're talking hours vs. weeks.
Your resume walk-through is how you answer the "Tell me about yourself" or "Walk me through your resume" or "Why are you here today?" question when you walk into an interview and first introduce yourself.
This is IMPORTANT because it's your first impression, and interviewers often decide your status within the first 5 minutes of the interview.
Join Jabril and Drew for advice on how to make the most of Friday's Diversity Networking reception! You can access the Google slides presentation here. This was from 21 virtual session this year is live . The info is more about what to do so ignore the Remo stuff
Featuring:
Jabril Robinson -- Assistant Director, Career Education and Diversity Initiatives, Boston College Career Center
Drew Barksdale -- Assistant Director, Undergraduate Career Engagement, Carroll School of Management
Watch Drew Barksdale -- Assistant Director, Undergraduate Career Engagement, Carroll School of Management -- and Philip Guarino -- Assistant Director, Career Center -- offer tips and advice for how to Work the Networking Reception. One correction, the video says Feb 5, the event is February 4.
For those who identify as LGBTQ+, there are number of resources out there to help you through your professional career journey in business.
A few employers who have programs specifically for those who identify as LGBTQ+:
Barclays, Citi, RBC, Deutsche, Blackstone, JP Morgan, Cowen
Affiliated subgroup of Out for Business which runs national level conferences for LGBTQ2+ students with participating employers
Site working to bridge the gap in making opportunities equitable
University of Pennsylvania's LGBTQ Center
The UPenn Center is full of excellent resources to check out
Organization working to helping the LGBT community thrive in the workplace
Organization that runs the national ROMBA Conference for pre-MBA students
Organization that shares stories in media of the LGBTQ community to further acceptance.