<p>Hi Everyone,</p>
<p>For all you Stern hopefuls - Good luck!
For all you Stern admits - Congrats! The next four years will be amazing!</p>
<p>As the title says, I graduated Stern in 2009 with degrees in Finance and Accounting. I am currently an Associate at a well-known Investment Bank (M&A – metals and mining). </p>
<p>It’s always helpful to have a resume on hand. I remember scrambling to put one together towards the end of Fall during my freshman year because a junior I was friends with knew of an internship opening. Long story short, I had no idea how to make my experiences as captain of my lacrosse team or volunteer at the American Red Cross sound interesting, important and somewhat relevant to the skills needed for banking (!) I managed to put something together, but as a sophomore, I looked back at my first version and realized what utter crap it was. A resume is a work in progress and you should always have one handy. You never know what internship position will open up or who you will meet at a networking event. It is difficult to make mundane experiences sound exciting and convincing. I constantly review resumes and interview students for summer and full-time positions. We only have 15 seconds to skim a resume out of the 500 we receive from different universities. Whatever the case is, I am here to be helpful in the process of putting a resume together. Please message me your needs and we can work together towards creating a resume. It won’t be perfect in the first attempt, but its a work in progress.</p>
<p>Wow great advice! How are the recruitment opportunities at Stern? How did you stack up against Ivies and if you felt below them, how did you make yourself stand out?</p>
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<p>I have the exact same questions as NYUSternie2016! I committed to NYU and I can’t wait for next year!</p>
<p>Also, I was wondering if NYU had a trading floor (for stocks, forex, and other investing) because I’m REALLY interested in forex trading. I’ve been practicing, but it’d be awesome to learn and trade with other students! I’m sure somewhere in NYC there is a trading floor for this purpose, but I was wondering if NYU has its very own, like a couple of schools do.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>When your skimming through resumes, do you ever [really care] the universities a student attends?</p>
<p>And how many people put their GPA on their resume?</p>
<p>For finance, school matters a LOT. BB firms such as MS,ML,GS,M&A,BLackstone,JPM prolly wont even hire if you arent from a target school unless you have a STELLAR resume. Take a look at wallstreet and you’ll see it filled with people from teir1 schools aka ivies, duke, MIT, stanford, nyustern, northwestern, etc. There will be that occasional one or two that come from some no-name college but they are fairly rare.</p>
<p>Your gpa pretty much determines what kid of jig you get out of college and your salary. So it is fairly important, it kinda dissolves after a while in industry. During college, GPA is important. Certain firms in finance have a 3.5+ requirement if i recall correctly</p>
<p>hey great advice man, apperciate you taking you’re time. Anyways, I’ve been admitted into CAS econ (fear or rejection from Stern), and really wanted to transfer to Stern freshman year. But my question is what kind of recruitment or job placements can CAS econ students get, as I hope to land an IB job at a BB. Also, what would you say are the biggest things a freshmen at NYU should do to get himself in front of the pack, (which clubs to join, looking for internships, networking,sports, ect) and how would I go about doing these things such as looking for an internship. Thanks</p>
<p>cas econ gets the same recruitment as stern students
job placements for stern are obviously higher because …its stern, but also since all stern kids are competing for the same jobs while not all cas kids are. ur IB job at a BB is also what all stern kids basically go into college thinking so theres obviously tons of competition for you. CAS kids have it harder, you need to network a harder than sternies. </p>
<p>Freshman internships dont really matter from what ive heard. People with a freshman internship say that it didnt made or break the full-time offer after graduation if they got one - ive heard of plenty of people who didnt do anything cept form the middle of their colleg career onward and they are doing great. As for clubs and sports, do what you want - imo people dont want someone person whos just a financewhore, they would like people who show interest in other things too.</p>