>> So, I started preparing now, that's-- that's the first thing.
It's becomes so highly competitive, in order to get a leg up,
you need to essentially ingrain yourself and become very passionate
or essentially determine whether you can be passionate about this business.
It's as simple as following the markets in terms of if you want to work
in the money-measure business, you have to have an understanding
or at least the base line understanding of what's going
on from the current event standpoint.
To build on that though, is learn the hard skills, accounting, math.
I took a lot of that for granted as an undergrad.
I learned a lot of it on my own working and then hone it in MBA school.
And you have to have that balance between the soft skills in terms of the--
of the overarching knowledge of what's going on the world and the hard skills
of what really takes to become a person that is known to have depth in the business.
Learn about the industry, what do I mean by that is-- is there's a lot aspects of this business,
there's a lot of different ways you can go and you can become very specialized
and niche-oriented and for those reasons, you can become very successful in those niches.
So, what I mean by start it early is its starting senior year
of high school, maybe even earlier than that.
There's some on the interns that we've interviewed here
in the last couple of years at our firm.
I mean, they've had internship or part-time work at inside of brokerage offices as early
as their junior years, either shadowing somebody or even going as far as actually working
for them as an assistant or some cases of part-time job.
So that will give you a leg up.
While at school get involved.
You have to ingrain yourself in the business which means you have to get involved in things
for example, at Penn state, like a Penn State Investment Association.
If you have the opportunity, try to interview
and become a fund manager within that, the line fund.
But all of those things really kind of bridge the gap between kind of the classroom
and what really what happens in the real world.