AD@Cornell MFE

蒙太奇

LZ有没想过之后入WORLD BANK然后回国当个国企的高层？。。。我觉得这条路更适合你走而且你也有条件走。。

如果你贸然转去INDUSTRY。。你的优势会被缩小。。。你可能永远就是个普通的工作人员。。。对于华人来说，能有FED的工作经验回去太珍贵了。。

凝静

原来是Vin阿，恭喜恭喜。
But if I were you, I will choose FED as well.
不是每份好工作都需要非常technique的技术的，但是有了技术后也不一定能找到好工作的。
这么好的机会来了，当然要抓住阿

fengzhujing

当然是工作。祝贺！请问是啥时投简历，现在有工作消息。

zhaopenglu

LZ有没想过之后入WORLD BANK然后回国当个国企的高层？。。。我觉得这条路更适合你走而且你也有条件走。。

如果你贸然转去INDUSTRY。。你的优势会被缩小。。。你可能永远就是个普通的工作人员。。。对于华人来说，能有FED的工作经验回去太珍贵了。。

-- by 会员 蒙太奇 (2011/3/15 10:18:18)

其实我也想过，不过觉得这个工作经验还没有到那种重要的地步，因为其实说到底，这个RA就是让人taste一下economic research是怎么一回事，然后可能工作中的很多人与人交流上的skill, 还有通过与个个bank之间工作中的接触建立的人际网络，这些我倒觉得很重要。

zhaopenglu

if youre fine with being a gov't staff then go with FEB, but the skillset you'll pick up will be in no way transferrable to banking/hf/pe...

-- by 会员 MorningSide (2011/3/15 9:42:12)

To be honest with you, I have thought about the skillset problem. From my understanding, most of the jobs will be done in statistical analysis of different economic models. There may be some similarities, but of course, one is for profit, the other is just for research purposes, different requirements for end products.

However, I was thinking about the huge networking and practical economics analysis skill I could potentially gain through this job. And I am also thinking if it is possible that the networking experience I will gather in Fed can help me further when I move into industry? Anyway, that's why I really lean towards working right now.

Another thinking is, both working and studying takes about 2 years, but the difference is that one I pay and the other I got paid.

In times when jobs are really hard to find and working experiences are hard to get, it becomes something valuable. That's basically the whole logic for my choice.

-- by 会员 zhaopenglu (2011/3/15 10:14:45)

Yeah man it's a risk-return thing. I personally wouldn't bank on "research" experience youre gonna get, but then again if youre fine with a gov't job def take this gig as the job market is harsh at the moment. you could always get your PR and a couple of years experience under your belt and try to jump ship via an MBA. good luck and let me know how it pans out.

-- by 会员 MorningSide (2011/3/15 10:35:28)

definitely man, you are giving thoughts to me and that's definitely valuable. All these opportunities are so great to me, and I really love to take both of them. But you know, I can only have one life, and have to give up something.

zhaopenglu

当然是工作。祝贺！请问是啥时投简历，现在有工作消息。

-- by 会员 fengzhujing (2011/3/15 10:26:35)

去年投。一般的hiring season是年底之前吧。

methane_jay

呵呵，其实我们读个MFE的硕士也就是为了去工作...现在有工作的机会，何乐而不为呢？靠这两年的工作经验将来申个MBA是个很好的选择啊~cong楼主

fengzhujing

我去年没投，想联系学校，但学校到现在还没消息。人在美国，不知现在是否有找工作机会？

蒙太奇

啊。。你是说RA是吧。。我看错了。。如果是RA的话那你就要想一下了。。

anthonyzhu

Congratulations!
Take the job and apply for MBA several years later, or wait for CMU. That's my opinion.There are way too many opportunities in top B-schools than master programs. So either take a MFE in B school, such as CMU and Berkeley, or apply for MBA later.