By Lindsey Plewa, Associate Director of GCMC Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sarah Goldman, a Baruch MBA student graduating this May, to talk about her experience at Zicklin the last two years.  I remember interviewing Sarah for the full-time MBA program in the spring of 2016.  Her music background was impressive, having completed a Masters already, along with numerous vocal performances, as well as experience teaching.  Naturally, my colleague and I were wondering, “So why the MBA now?”  We were impressed with Sarah’s articulate, thoughtful answers and sensed that she had what it took to do what so many come to the Zicklin full-time MBA program to do; make a career change. Fast forward two years later: Sarah has accepted a fulltime offer with CohnReznick where she’ll be starting as an Assurance Associate this November.  In our conversation she shares many tips for students pursuing graduate studies, but I especially like the three below which are vital for

I had the opportunity to interview an MS Finance student to find out more about what it's like to work as a Financial Analyst for one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world. The perspective was interesting because instead of being a coder or a data scientist, like one would guess when thinking of a job in e-commerce, she worked as an Investment Management Analyst. Tao Yang MS QMM It does make sense, of course, that an e-commerce company would have an Investment Management arm. When you take a closer look at any big company, they often have an investment arm to capture profits generated by the liquidity of their operations. Getting to the opportunity was a challenge for the student, as it sometimes is for many. She leveraged all the avenues to find the role, using as many channels available to her: GCMC, OCR, company websites and career sites like Indeed.com. On top of that, she networked with contacts from her undergraduate university as well as from Baruch.