Students on the Blog: Journey from School to Work - Part 1

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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, evaluating risk, equities, fixed income instruments, risk analytics and regression models. In addition, learning about attribution and regression in statistics helped prepare me for my internship.

However, you cannot expect to learn everything in school. On the job, you’ll learn a lot of new skills. That’s how the process goes.


What do you do in your internship?

I work at a portfolio intelligence platform. We analyze data for institutional clients, and help them understand their investment portfolio better. This allows our clients to make smarter investment decisions.


How is the environment in your internship?

It is very easygoing and natural. Connecting to other employees or peers came naturally.


What would have made your journey from class to internship a better experience?

If I learned more about portfolio management at school, that would have been helpful. I learned the basics of Portfolio Management in my Corporate Finance class, but it would be helpful if we had a separate class focused on portfolio management.

Other than that, the journey from class to internship was pretty good. Although, for international students, it’s always one step harder. Finding an internship is always a challenge, especially finding a good internship. However, if you keep up the work eventually you’ll land something good.


If you were to give advice to a student, what would it be?

Know what classes you need to take, and network more.

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