Path to Investment Bank

livingontheedge SG

Hi,

Well, I need your sincerest help. My plan, my interest, my goal is to get into corporate finance / investment banking whether in a Big 4 audit firm, Investment Bank or Private Equity firm.

Now, the problem is, I am stuck in Audit and have been for the last 3 years.

My current plan is to complete my CFA (I will doing my 2nd Level paper in Jun '10) and also to take my GMAT paper. I realise doing the GMAT is mainly to apply for an MBA program, but I guess I am doing the GMAT to include my score in my resume and prove to my prospective employers of my academic capability and strenghts.

If things still do not work out, I will consider going on for my MBA.

Am I on the right path here? Any advice or opinions? Anything else I should be doing?

Any help is sincerely appreciated. I will do anything to make the jump I need.

Alpha Omega SG

Rule no 1 in any job.

Know the right people.

Rule no 2. See rule no. 1.

Rooney9 SG

wait till you have CFA qualification first, then worry later.

Aargon SG

livingontheedge,

if i can ask, what interests you about investment banking or corporate finance?

did you know corporate finance in a big 4 vs investment banking vs private equity (I assume you mean research?) are all different career paths?

CFA is next to useless for investment banking and corporate financing. But I am guessing you should have already known that given you`ve already completed level 1?

My advise is make sure you actually `understand` what you learn. There is no point having a CFA and then make you get the job, being absolutely cluessless on what you are doing... being a manager myself, I have seen it too many times ie overqualified degrees but no people with zero common sense...

good luck anyway!

isaboutme SG

Hi all. i currently serving my ns and going to graduate this coming aug and currently worried about my future.

I'm a EEE student and due to my poor language problem during my secondary school days, i enroll myself to EEE. But now i have find my interest and seeing my self doing something that i want to. I hope you guys will help me.

I want to be an investment analyst cos i'm been monitoring the shares since poly day, read about business time and also very on to the finance sector.

But. with a gpa of 3.27 in dipolma EEE i want to cross to business field is quite hard right especially the big 3 local uni. how am i going to engineer my path (further my studies )in inorder to achieve my goals