Throughout New York City, Zicklin graduate students are busy interning at various companies every day. Each of them experiences new things throughout their internships, which is how they learn and grow. This spring semester, GCMC Office Assistant and undergraduate student Rudaiba Islam (BBA Finance ’21) is interviewing six Zicklin graduate students to share their journeys from class to work. At the end of this series, she will discuss from her own perspective what she learned from hearing from these students. Sergio Cortina MS Finance ‘19 Intern at Novus Partners in the Analytics Department Which courses did you take that helped you in your internship? I took a lot of Finance courses, but among them Corporate Finance, Econometrics and Investment Analysis helped me a lot to gain prior knowledge for my internship. These classes gave me a better understanding of financial tools and concepts that helped me develop better analysis skills. For example, learning about exposures,...

By Tingting Luo (MS Quantitative Methods and Modeling ’19, and holder of an MS Accountancy degree) In fall 2018, I had the opportunity to work as an Accounting Assistant Intern at an apparel company. Although I was doing basic accounting work, the experience taught me a lot. From this job, I learned how an entire company operates and the skills needed to be an accountant. At first, I recorded different invoices from vendors and customers, and used Excel to analyze the  company’s financial operations. As an intern, I was treated just like full-time associates, and got assigned actual and meaningful tasks that were crucial and beneficial to the company. Being in the financial department, I handled a lot of accounts which demanded skill sets not taught in the general accounting curriculum in school. Hence, this was challenging at times when I was faced with a new account which I had not seen before. However, colleagues were always ready and willing to give their advice a...