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cicilla

依稀依稀好像有点印象，晚辈这里有礼了！欢迎常回来看看！

晴耕雨读

Welcome back BBBEAR!  CD Spirit

过的很快呀，听过你第一次申请讲座，去年申请聚会还问你“咦，你不是拿到OFFER了么？怎么还留在这里 ”

水蓝27

欢迎回来：）CD上不仅NN多，他们更像我们的兄长，挚友～～感动ing

soaring

宝宝熊大哥终于回来啦

热烈欢迎~

soaring

fwdlee

Welcome back,Baobaobear!!look forward to hearing more from you

小飞象

Welcome, baobaobear!!!

Have read about your stories in 2004申请成功者访谈 and heard about your experience in a record downloaded from CD!!  Thanks for your sharing!!

baobaobear

以下是引用chipmunk在2006-1-1 1:35:00的发言：
Welcome back baobaobear! Long time no see.  Hope all is well.  If you come to Shanghai, please let me know.

Hi chipmunk,

Great to hear fr you. Can you believe--- I am in SH now. Have send you an message... pls check your CD email...

Understand there is a CD Party in SH on Jan 7. would try to join it...

baobaobear

As I have said, I would like to share with all of you some of my understanding/collection of IB related information.

Investment banks want employees with a combination of strong analytical and interpersonal skills. While some job functions lean more towards one than the other, the general skill set required includes:

Key Skill Area                     Requirement

Analytical skills                  Extremely High

Ability to synthesize data           Very High

Teamwork skills                                 High   pull together people with large egos to get a deal done

Communication skills                         High

Creative ability                                   High/Medium

Sales skills                                       High/Medium

Initiative                                            Medium

Work hours                                       70-110/week

baobaobear

Investment Banking: Life as an Analyst

Analysts are typically recent undergraduates who work long hours and do a fair bit of grunt work.   Key analyst skills include:

• the ability to work with Excel spreadsheets,PPT  


• write macros in VBA, --VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications. It's a programming language under Excel environment. I heard many people(especially in IB sector) use Excel and VBA to create Excel spreadsheet to build and/or calculate financial models. What do you mean by "proficiency in Excel applications?" in what context and to what extend? ---- Every finance related issue does require strong spreadsheet skills such as excel, of course VBA. Modern corporate finance theory is close related to the option pricing theory. VBA, even C++, Java and MATLAB, is the necessary tool to tackle the problem. Normally, as my experience, you do not need much programming experience in Marco, just focusing on the user-defined functions. To short, if you could create your functions to price option, that's fine.


• track and generate weekly newsletters (weeklies),


• keep schedules,


• generate prospectuses,


• get burgers


• put in and retrieve pitch books from the copy center


• and answer client phone calls.

Success Factors

Key success factors include (i) getting your job done well and without friction, (ii) getting things done on time, (iii) asking for help when you need it, (iv) dressing neatly, (v) not complaining, gossiping or whining, (vi) learning to use the library and the web to do research, (vii) become a whiz-kid with Bloomberg, Excel, Word and Powerpoint, (viii) always give your boss credit, (ix) know when to cheer up your boss and (x) know when to stay out of the way.

A good analyst also networks, observes and thinks. You want to be genuine yet make it clear that you like your boss. Excessive posterior kissing is a negative. It's always good to have a little hobby as well like following stocks, playing Liars Poker or following currencies. You can do this when things get quiet in August.