This is part three of our series “Journey from School to Work,” where our Office Assistant Rudaiba Islam (BBA Finance ’21) is interviewing six Zicklin students and sharing their journeys from class to work. Jiaxu Han MS Finance '19 Interned as an Analyst at an Investment Bank/Brokerage Did your internship meet your expectations? Overall, my internship was important for my growth within the industry. What has been the most valuable thing that you have learned at your Internships? I was a research intern at a Financial Services company. I maintained and improved the company's extensive research database, and collected market and trading information from the database for company clients around the globe. This encouraged me to learn more about how to use the Bloomberg Terminal and analyze realtime financial market data. In my second internship, I worked as an Analyst at an Investment Banking firm. I worked with Capital IQ and Bloomberg. In this internship, my skill...

This is part two of our series “Journey from School to Work,” where our Office Assistant Rudaiba Islam (BBA Finance ’21) is interviewing six Zicklin students and sharing their journeys from class to work. Jocelyn Qiaoshuang Li MS Financial Risk Management ‘18 Interned at CENTSAI.com Why did you choose Baruch after obtaining a Bachelor’s from Cornell? When I decided to get a Master’s, I wanted to go to a well-known university that had a good location along with good academics. Zicklin has a very strong Finance program, and Baruch has a really strong alumni network. There are also a lot of opportunities to go to conferences, and meet new people. Our student body is also extremely diverse. So when it came to doing a cost-benefit analysis, Baruch was and is still the best option. How did you get your internship? There was an NYC based annual conference called "LendIt." Through the GCMC, I got free tickets for its 2017 conference. While there, I met with the founder...

By Summer (Jiqing) Cao MS Quantitative Methods and Modeling '19 The health and wellness agency Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness (SSW) hosted Baruch graduate students for a site visit at their office in the New York City on Friday, February 22, 2019. The visit was organized by the Zicklin Graduate Career Management Center (GCMC). The Data Analytics Team of SSW prepared an informative presentation called “Exploring a Career in Marketing Analytics & Data Science” for Baruch students during the visit. The event started with an introduction of the team and the company background from SVP - Kevin Troyanos. Mr. Troyanos shared the culture of the firm, an overview of the healthcare market, and underscored the essential role of data analytics in the industry. During the presentation, Troyanos asked everyone in the room to open the SSW website on their phone and showed us real time traffic analysis on their website in Google Analytics. We observed a general background analysis of ...

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...

Photo from Michelle Obama Facebook Page By Lindsey Plewa , GCMC Associate Director With the temperature in New York City hovering around bitterly cold in January, I love nothing more than to curl up with a good book over the weekend. Most recently, I've been reading "Becoming" by Michelle Obama, a Christmas present from my sister and brother-in-law. Besides being a fascinating read about someone I truly admire, I loved her honest account about how she dealt with the difficult task of wanting to change careers. Here are three lessons from her story that are applicable to anyone considering making a career change. Lesson 1: Acknowledge that "something isn't quite right" feeling  After attending Princeton, she worked as a corporate lawyer, but struggled with staying in that career for the long haul. She writes, "I didn't want people remembering me for the stacks of legal briefs I'd written or the corporate trademarks I'd helped defend...

This is Part 2 of a two-part post. Every day, there are numerous Zicklin grad students interning in various companies throughout New York City. Each of them have different experiences, learn new skills and come away with new ideas and goals from the work they do. These Zicklin students shared with the GCMC their thoughts on their fall 2018 internships: Siyu Jia (MS Real Estate '19), Acquisition Intern at a real estate private equity fund Student in the MS Quantitative Methods and Modeling Class of '19, Global Finance Intern at multinational investment bank and financial services company Haoran Lin (MS Quantitative Methods and Modeling '20), Risk Analyst at international banking group Yifan Panfang (MS Accountancy '18), Analyst at major US financial services firm Yanan Xu (MS Accountancy '18), Accounting Intern at a hotel management group We asked each of them the same four questions, but their answers were hardly the same. ++++++++ ...