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How hard is it to secure a full-time position if you haven’t completed an internship this year?
Students with aspirations to break into investment banking in 2011 have to face the fact that majority of full-time places will have been filled by the previous year’s intake of summer interns before firms even embark on campus recruitment. But to what extent this year have full-time places been taken up by intern conversations? J. [...]
Another opportunity to pit your trading skills against your peers
If you missed out on the last eFinancialCareers Investment Challenge, or felt a month wasn’t long enough for your trading prowess to come into fruition, we have some good news – it’s back on for autumn and this time around it runs for two months. The Challenge, sponsored by Credit Suisse, is open for registration [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How to write the perfect cover letter to accompany your graduate application
It’s easy to get covering letters wrong. Generally your CV/resume is a “one size fits all” document. But cover letters are different. They need to be customised according to the business area and company that you are applying to. Length The first 30 or 40 words of your cover letter should therefore explain who you [...]
A philanthropic way to gain investment banking work experience
eFinancialCareers is once again giving students the opportunity to gain vital work experience within a top investment bank, while at the same time basking in the warm glow of altruism. We’ve teamed up with the Princes Trust to launch University Million Makers, which is set to kick off on 11th October. The scheme is essentially [...]
The implausibility of landing an investment banking graduate place in Asia
With most investment banks building in Asia, it’s not surprising that European students are spreading their bets and looking to apply to both locations. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Firstly, there’s the application process itself. Some banks, such as Nomura and Morgan Stanley, don’t restrict the number of applications you can make, while others (such [...]
INTERN DIARY: Crunch time over lunchtime
After 11 weeks of early wake-ups and late nights, coupled with a necessity to act as keen as humanly possible at every moment, my internship is finally over. I don’t know whether to rejoice or cry! I knew the routine endured during the summer was one I’d have to get used to if I wanted [...]
Rumours of an unusually high intern conversion rate may have been greatly exaggerated
Now, more than ever, achieving some modicum of success during a summer internship is a golden ticket to being offered a permanent investment banking graduate placement. At least that’s the assertion of a number of users of this site some of whom, we presume, are on the receiving end of these offers and have suggested [...]
Europe’s top student traders revealed
The results are in. Over 1,700 students from across Europe pitted their trading skills against one another in the eFinancialCareers Investment Challenge, sponsored by Credit Suisse. But from this bountiful crop of entries, only the top two from each of the competition categories – students graduating in 2012 and those completing studies in 2013 – [...]
INTERNSHIP DISASTER: The licentious pitchbook
Once upon a time at a large American investment bank, there was a bubbly Irish girl who earned a summer internship within one of the M&A teams. For most of the summer, everything went smoothly. She was on-time, willing to put up with the long hours and never complained when given a mundane task which [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Face it kid, you’re not good enough to get into trading
So kiddo, you fancy your chances as a trader? Maybe you’re a fresh faced grad with an analytical mind, straight out of your PhD in Astrophysics? Perhaps you’re a mathematically inclined accountant who trades CFD’s in her spare time or places the odd spread bet on the FTSE 100? Almost every week the Evening Standard [...]
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