Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, member MBB to PE shares his path out of a Target University to a top role

at a management consulting firm. We also get an inside look into what it was like recruiting

for private equity during the crazy

2019 on-cycle recruiting process.

From interviewing on a Thursday night from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m. to starting again the next

day at 7 a.m. Listen to game theory applied in a real-life context and learn how he dealt with

the split-second decisions that had significant

career implications for his entire life. Enjoy.

All right, MBV-B-T-P-E. Thank you for joining the Wall Streetoices podcast.

Yeah, thank you for having me, Patrick.

So it'd be great if you could give the listeners just a short summary of your bio.

Yeah.

So I started at a Target school and was maybe a bit unusual in that I really didn't know the first thing about finance, what the industry was, or really even kind of what

the stock market entailed and was really focused on being an engineer, I would say, for the

first couple years of school. And so it wasn't really until my junior year that having actually

interned, you know, as an engineer and kind of realized that I wasn't as interested in that

path as I thought, that I got just generally more interested in business and finance.

So, you know, through kind of kind of like a process of almost elimination and discovery of just

talking to people and trying out some internships, you know, it was a kind of an iterative

process of figuring out what I actually

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