Schmoozing Your Way To MBA Success

Poets and Quants for Undergrads

 

Wisconsin’s Compass Aims for Work-Ready Grads

Major Firms More Than Triple Ross’ BBA Hiring

 

Poets and Quants for Execs

 

Trium Tops New Financial Times Ranking of EMBAs

Tuck and IMD Team Up on Leadership

 

Blast from the Past:

 

How to Land a Coveted Investment Bank Internship

 

So investment banking is dead, is it? All the ‘would-be masters of the universe’ are becoming entrepreneurs and consultants, are they?

Dream on.

This week, Poets&Quants reported that finance reclaimed the #1 spot for hiring grads of Stanford’s Class of 2014 accepted finance jobs. And that’s not by accident. Everyone wants to be their own boss…until they have to put their home up as collateral. And the romance of consulting wanes during those weekends in the Mongolian tundra. You may loathe working weekends to keep pace at an investment bank, but those plush paychecks offer some comfort. You just need to learn your trade and build your network – you’ll move to the venture capital side soon enough.

Alas, an internship is your gateway into the JP Morgans and Goldman Sachs. And it takes more than just good looks and top grades to get in. That’s the stance of Michael White, who spent a decade at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America before heading up the MBA admissions consulting practice of Darien Academic Advisors, LLC. For White, there are ’10 different makers’ that dictates who gets in – and who ends up elsewhere. Want to know how MBA students are landing summer internships at the top banks? Click on the link below to learn more.

Source: Poets&Quants

 

Video of the Week

 

MBA Career Search: How Recruiters Use the GMAT to Assess Job Candidates

Sources: Beat the GMAT and Ohio State University