MSA '18 Xiaojia Liu Xiaojia (Katie) Liu (MS'18) interviewed alumni Huanxi (Edison) Zhu about his role as Assurance Associate at PwC. Katie: Edison, what made you end up choosing assurance as your current profession and how do you like it so far? Edison: Basically, audit and tax are the two most common options to accounting students when they graduate. I did a busy season interning in tax at a mid-size accounting firm, and realized tax was not my passion. Therefore, the only option left was audit. Luckily, PwC gave me an offer in audit at that point, so I decided to give it a shot. So far, I haven't regretted my decision. MSA '16 Alumni Huanxi Zhu Katie: What are some skills that you think are necessary for students who are planning to enter into public accounting? Edison: There are hard skills and soft skills. Technically wise, you want to have a solid understanding of accounting principles and strong Excel skills. Since we are all in New York, most st...

GCMC Mission The Graduate Career Management Center is an educational department dedicated to providing Zicklin graduate students and alumni with the tools and resources necessary to successfully manage their careers while building relationships between employers and the Baruch community to help develop talent pipelines. Fred Burke — Director Fred comes to the Zicklin School of Business with over 15 years of experience in higher education career services. For the last six years, he was the Executive Director of the Career Center at Hofstra University. He finds great joy in helping students discover their career plans and implementing those plans into actual internships and jobs. Lindsey Plewa — Deputy Director and Career Advisor For more than a decade, Dr. Lindsey Plewa has coached thousands of students on how to successfully navigate a job search. Prior to working at Baruch College, she ran a professional development program for MBA studen...

MS Information Sytems Anh Nguyen MS Information Systems student Anh Nguyen connected with Baruch alumnus Joe Nelson (BBA ‘10 Finance and Investments. Minor: Computer Information Systems) to talk about his work in finance, some of the key skills he uses in his work and other thoughts on how he got to where he is. What have you been doing since graduation (where you’ve worked, changing interests/positions/companies, etc.)? I've worked at a few different companies across the buy side and sell side, in both technology and business-side roles. My main focus has been on electronic and algorithmic trading, and associated functions such as quantitative research, transaction cost analysis, and market microstructure. What do you think are some key lessons or skills for someone specifically trying to work in technical operations in finance? Joe Nelson BBA '10 Finance and Investment The financial services industry relies heavily on technology, so business, produc...

Eva Law MS Accountancy “Being on the recruiting side after having been a student can be an eye opening experience.” That’s what MS Accountancy student Eva Law got to see this past fall. Baruch is very proud of its relationship with AIG’s Internal Audit Group, which Eva joined in 2016. She was also part of the firm’s career information session this fall to talk with students about what it’s like to work there and answer any questions. We asked Eva what it was like being on the recruiting side, and any insight she might want to share with students. When you were a student, what was it like for you attending career information sessions? I remember feeling that career information sessions were oftentimes overwhelming. There were so many students and recruiters in attendance and as a student you try to collect as much information as you can, but often feel pressured to stand out with everyone we meet, which is hard with so many people in the room. What was it like be...

Jingqiao (Ciao) Huang (MS Quantitative Methods and Modeling '17) interviewed alumna Shivani Trehan (MS Statistics '16) about her role as a Data Scientist, thoughts on networking and what some key skills students should be thinking about are. Jingqiao : Shivani, thank you for meeting with me today. Let's start with your current job. Can you please share a bit about your current role at your company? Shivani : I work for Assembly (Media Arts and Sciences). I work as a Data Scientist for the Analytics and Data Science team. I am working across different accounts and servicing different clients depending on the need. My work involves media-mix modeling and other forms of predictive modeling. I also work on other data analyses as and when they are required. Jingqiao :  How did you find this job and what preparation work or steps did you do or take to land there? Shivani :  I reached out to the EVP, Data Science and Analytics team on LinkedIn and told him that ...

By Bin Feng, MS Accounting ‘18 For people outside of the marketing field, it’s easy to think that marketing merely means poster designs, advertisements or event promotion. Few of us, however, understand the digital side. In an era of globalization and new technologies, digital marketing professionals make use of data analysis to understand customer preferences and create targeted promotional materials. Last week, I interviewed Li Yang (MS Marketing ’16), a Baruch College alumnus of the MS Marketing Program, to talk about what it is like working as a Digital Marketing Manager. Q: Hey Yang, first thing first, thanks for your time for this interview. Shall we start by you sharing your role in your company? A: Hi Bin, you are welcome! I’m the Digital Marketing Manager in our company. My role is mainly comprised of four parts: one, budget planning for marketing campaigns and public-relation events; two, predicting and planning monthly orders based on our sales on e-commerce ...

By Gennaro Aliperti (MS Marketing '15) June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month and in honor of this occasion, JetBlue invited a group of Zicklin students for a site visit at their headquarters in Long Island City. The visit was co-organized by the Zicklin Graduate Career Management Center and Baruch’s Graduate Pride Society, and included a panel discussion from senior leaders in the company followed by a speed networking session. The panel consisted of four individuals who work in different functions of the company, including Marketing, Finance and Operations. The conversation began with a reflection of each panelist’s experience with a mentor and how this had led them to their current points in their career. A lot of the panelists didn’t start their career with a clear path in mind, but they all agreed that finding mentors that are similar to them gave them room to speak candidly about their interests. Ultimately, these honest relationships helped them build the networks that led...