>> You know, finance, particularly on the investment side
and the investment banking side has become a very competitive career path.
There are lots of students that are interested in it because it's in New York,
it's on Wall Street, it's been featured in movies.
But as a result, it's become incredibly competitive.
So you really do need to think about what are the steps you can take very early on in college
to prepare yourself and give you the opportunity to pursue this sort of job opportunity.
One of the things you can do, and the first thing I always advise people
to do is to network.
Speak to as many people as you can, watch videos like this, but really try to get out and engage
with people who have worked in finance, whether that be folks that you go to school
with that are seniors or juniors who have had internship opportunities,
or people who graduated a year or two ago.
Check with your career office.
Generally speaking, career offices can put you in touch with alumni who are willing
to dedicate their time to speak with you and give you the advice
and give you really the background on what they do, because there's lots
of different jobs within finance.
I'm representing one of 50 or maybe 100 different types of specific jobs
that you can have, and it's really important to try to understand not all 100 of the jobs
that you can have, but maybe the 10 or 12 different categories of jobs that there are
so you can speak intelligently about it, you can tell people what you want
and what you're interested in, and you can really try to differentiate yourself.