Monkey to Millions

In this session with Grace, we cover how she finished up with finals in the past month and how sporadic her hours are at the current IB remote internship. I encourage her to use her free time on the lighter days to drill on the new WSO modeling courses that she has available to her and we spend the last half of the session going through an investment banking technical mock interview. Listen in to find out how she did...

In this session, Andrew and I catch up since it's been almost 7 weeks since our last session. Since last time he finished up his junior year, moved in with his girlfriend and has started his remote IB internship. Listen to hear how tedious it is working remotely and how he is handling the unpredictable nature of each day as well as my advice on how and when to warm his network back up and how that interacts with the potential full time offer that may come from this internship.

In this short session with Grace, we just touch base quickly as she is in the middle of finals and we talk about how to succeed at her internship now that it has moved remotely. We talk about contingency plans in case there is a lower workload and how she can build out her resume in this important summer.

In this 9th episode, we hear about John's new investment banking internship as well as a part-time job he's picked up to bring in some side-income as he is in his final semester of college. John gives me a detailed update on the type of work he's trying to get at this IB internship and I try to encourage him to keep his networking efforts up to lay a strong foundation and build more relationships that will pay off over the next few years. We strategize a bit on how he can eventually try to get some income from the IB job but I try to reassure him that if he is able to get the right experience then he'll have a much better shot at lateraling...

In this episode, Andrew shares the new reality faced by many students coming into internships this summer and how his firm is dealing with it. We explore how he can make his time at home productive and I sound like a broken record trying to get him to ramp up his networking efforts rather than dial it back.

In this episode, we get some exciting news from John on the job search front even in the face of multiple canceled super days. We talk a little bit about poker (no-limit Holdem), and postpone our meetup over a beer for 2 months when we both hope this Covid mess comes to an end. Listen to my advice around how John is trying to make himself useful in his new potential internship while working remotely. This could be relevant for quite a while...

In Grace's 7th session, we talk about the new realities of life and recruiting with Coronavirus moving Fordham classes online. We also spend a good chunk of this session doing a mock interview with some technical questions around the market, recessions and questions she should be ready for...listen to what I think she needs to keep working on to make sure she is super polished when interviews start back up.

In this session, we learn that John's aggressive volume networking based on our last call is starting to pay dividends. He has a final round interview this upcoming Friday and several second-round interviews coming up. Even though the networking is working, I encourage him to keep the volume high since there is a lot of uncertainty in the volatile stock market and with coronavirus, so it may be even harder in this environment for firms to hire.

In this session, we go over what Andrew has been up to since it's been a few months since our last session. He put in a lot of work on his CFA investment contest but not as much as I'd like on the networking side. I think part of this is because it's hard to motivate when you already have a great internship lined up for the summer, but I'm still pushing him to try and reach higher, make more contacts and even make the trip down to New York even though the school canceled because of Coronavirus. Next session we'll do a mock interview and we'll get an update on if he thinks he can muster up the coordination and network to make a trip to New York worth it.

In Grace's sixth session, we find out that she has been super busy with networking calls and coffee chats. She is smart to be aggressive and apply to accelerated sophomore internships even though she is just a Freshman. We talk about balancing her workload from the internship, schoolwork and interview preparation and I encourage her to try and start prepping for the technical portion of the interview, even just 30min per week to make sure she isn't caught flat-footed if an interview is unexpectedly offered to her.