If you’re an ‘elite student’ and you don’t want to work for an investment bank or for a big tech firm, chances are you want to work for a major strategy consulting firm like McKinsey & Co. And once you get into McKinsey, you […]
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Top 10 Student Loan Myths You Should Stop Believing
Student loans are full of truths and myths. The former helps you repay student loans faster, while the latter can cost you more money. How can you differentiate the two? Here are the top 10 student loan myths – and […]
How to Get Real-Life Career Experience During Your PhD Program
Everything you do as a graduate student is building toward that time when you finally go on the job market (kind of like when you were in college). And maybe you’re looking for options outside academia because you’ve heard how […]
Want to Switch Careers? How an MBA Opens Doors
One of the major selling points of business school is the potential to change careers: B-schools like to tell prospective students that an MBA will open the doors to jobs in almost any sector. And over 50% of incoming students […]
Goldman Sachs to relieve the pressure on stressed-out 19 year-olds
Spare a thought for the 18 or 19 year-old university student with an interest in working in an investment bank. Over years, the investment banking recruitment process has become incrementally more relentless. Once upon a time, it was possible to apply for […]
4 Steps to Staying Sane as a Grad Student in the Real World
The joys of being a student: You wake up at 10 AM, have a nice long (healthy!) breakfast and finish up last night’s reading before strolling off to class. Wait! Last night’s reading? Seventy-five more pages for your 3 PM seminar? How […]
A Day in the Life of a B-School Student
Now that I’m starting my third week at business school, I feel like I’m finally settling into a routine. My days are pretty long, but I know that I’m packing a lot in. The hardest part so far is finding […]
The best US cities for millennials who have student debt
In the US, college is more expensive than ever before. Moreso than any other generation, millennials are graduating with crippling student debt that may take their entire lives to pay off. Today, the average American student leaves college with $37,172 in loans, […]
I’m still a finance student, but I’ve launched a Hong Kong blockchain start-up
Most fintech entrepreneurs decide to go it alone only after clocking up several years in big banks; Hung Lok Bun chose a more rapid path. He’s launched a blockchain company, learned from his initial mistakes, and refocused his firm into […]
Bankers have been complaining about their lives to a student
Whatever you do, don’t get someone who works in a bank onto subject of their pet peeves – particularly if that person happens to be a former bank employee who now does something much more socially acceptable, like working for […]