0:00 Introduction

0:26 Tell us about your role

1:06 Tell us about your company - Q5

3:11 Tell us about a project you worked on

8:11 How do you come up with a business strategy or solutions?

13:10 Daily job responsibiliteis

16:03 Skills needed to become a Management Cosultant

18:48 Interview process at Q5 in London

20:45 Why did you study Electrical and Electronics Engineering?

23:51 How did you land a graduate consulting job without prior experience

27:43 How did you cope with being laid off as a graduate?

33:16 What are some lessons you learnt from you career journey?

In this Interview Ivan, a Software Engineer at Google in Lodnon walks us through the Software Engineer Interview Process and shares tips on how to prepare for it.

Daniella worked for a year as an Investment Banking Analyst at Jefferies after graduating from NYU Abu Dhabi. After a year in Investment Banking Daniella shifted to the Credit Research and Rating industry to work for Moody's. In this episode Daniella compares both roles and industries. She also explains what the Credit Analyst role entails and what her company (Moody's does)

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Is a master's degree worth it? How did you shift to consulting with an engineering degree? What is digital transformation in the context of consulting? All these questions will be answered by John in this episode. John is currently a management consulting manager at Gate One. He worked for six years across various consulting roles, industries and projects. In this episode he walks us through his journey and explains what is digital transformation and why he chose it. Tune in for an insightful conversation with John.

Episode summary + timestamps: In the second part of the episode Fatih walks us through his different experiences in financial markets and he focuses on describing his job as a growth equity associate. Fatih also shares great tips for international students who are keen on gaining a competitive edge when applying to finance roles in London.

4:56 2. Day to day responsibilities (steps of a growth equity deal)

Episode summary & timestamps: In this episode Tofunmi shares 1) the academic and professional expereinces that helped land a graduate software engineering role at Twitter 2) how he navigated the job market in London and great tips on finding a job and 3) building a strong portfolio as an international software engineer professional/candidate to land jobs in London.

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Episode summary + timestamps: My guest Fatih Haloglu is an investment professional with 4 years of experience in financial markets. In this episode he shares his insights on working in Investment banking and private equity. He deep dives into the difference between investment banking and private equity and how his learning, responsibilities and experience were different across these two industries.

0:33 1. Why did you study economics and finance?

2:02 2. Why did you choose a career in finance?

4:25 3. Tips to navigate the finance job market in London

6:05 4. Investment banking (IB) vs private equity (PE)

9:21 5. How did your role change in IB vs PE?

14:07 6. Transferable skills from IB to PE