Monday, June 30, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Banking Analyst Job Description
An important aspect of obtaining a job, namely one in investment banking, is knowing and understanding what your interviewers are looking for when they ask you a specific question. Many times you will interview with multiple people. Each interviewer is generally assigned a task, for example to test your finance knowledge, test your accounting, find out about your general personality, etc....
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Investment Bank Comparison
Here are some links and videos about each investment bank. This should give you a quick and easy way to learn more about each bank and tailor your answer specifically to the interview question, 'Why our bank?'. Some links are videos and some are to the Careers page on their website. Definitely go through and check out the YouTube links. Deutsche Bank has some great multimedia presentations I
Friday, June 20, 2008
Congratulations on Another Year!
Congratulations to Project Manager, Dave Hargis, on his third year anniversary with Structures Building Company!In photo, William Kendrick, playing alongside Dave
Monday, June 16, 2008
The Yahoo! Dilemna
The last poll I posted on this site was regarding our thoughts on whether Microsoft and Yahoo! were going to do a deal. As we all know (or as we all should know), a deal between the two companies did not happen. What did happen is a deal between Google and Yahoo!. I want to give some insight into this deal by posting from Fred Wilson's blog [http://avc.blogs.com/], a venture capitalist in NYC.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Structures Wins the 2008 Prism Award for Best Customer Service
May 22nd, Structures Building Company was pleased to receive the Best Customer Service Award and Exceptional Service Award for the fourth year in a row from the Charleston Trident Home Builders Association! The Customer Service Award is the cumulative result of over 54 customers surveyed by Guild Quality, a third party customer surveying service, located in Atlanta, GA.
Things You Must Do This Summer To Prepare For Fall Interviews
So you want to be an investment banking analyst when you graduate. You tried to to get a summer internship at an investment bank, but it didn't work out. Here is a short and dirty list of the things you need to complete this summer to be prepared for your interviews this Fall. I am focusing this list specifically towards students attending 'non-core' universities.To Do List:Summer Work
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Life of a Summer Intern
Life of a Summer InternHere is the link to a blog put together by a summer intern at a bulge bracket investment bank in NYC. This is a great way to get some insight into the life of a summer intern. I would read through it and take note of the lifestyle aspects of the work. This way when you interview in the fall for a banking internship or full-time position you understand the lifestyle a little
