If you want to know how to get a finance job, pay close attention. This advice is from someone who has already done it. This is how you will get a finance job.

As a student, you might stress about tests, but once you get close to graduation you really just start to stress about how to get a job. And in this case more specifically: how to get a finance job.

 

In this episode, I interview Ryan Boutwell, a fellow grad of the UT Austin Master of Science in Finance program, about his experience attempting to secure a job while still in school. Ryan began the recruitment process before Day 1 of his masters program, which goes to show that you can never really start too early. He was able to land a job at Raymond James (an investment bank) doing equity research, which is exactly the same company and job as what I was doing before I resigned to start The Post Money Plan. With 6 months in the rear view mirror, Ryan reflects back on the recruitment process and his perspective shift on what his career trajectory might look like now that he’s entered the workforce.

 

We touch on:

-Ryan’s background

-His perspective on the recruitment process for UT Austin MSF students

-The young but growing reputation of the UT Austin MSF program

-Being aware of your school program’s recruitment pipelines into employers

-Ryan’s original recruitment game plan

-His reflections on what made for fruitful and wasted recruitment efforts

-Aggressive networking and ballsy recruitment strategy

-The impact that technology is having on the recruitment process and finance job opportunities

-How you really don’t need to stress because it will all work out in the end

 

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