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, consumer investor shares her path from a non-target school to breaking

into the Equity Research Group at a bulge bracket bank.

We learned how she landed a key sophomore summer internship, why she was so attracted to equity research, how she eventually made the transition to another bulge bracket bank in order to get into investment banking.

Listen to hear how COVID changed everything, what she did with her promotion to associate, and what main tool she used to help her navigate the private equity recruiting process.

Okay, consumer investor.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks, Patrick.

Appreciate your time.

I'm excited to be here.

Likewise.

So if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio, that'd be a great place to start. Sure. So I went to a non-target school, studied finance.

My junior year, I had an internship in Equity Research, joined there full-time covering the retail space.

After two years, working there, moved over to a different bank in the investment banking group covering a similar sector.

I got promoted from Alice to Associate after about a and a half, and then made the move over to

a middle market private equity firm focused also in the consumer space. Great. So from non-target to

bulge bracket equity research to bulge bracket investment banking to P. It's kind of the summary.

So let's let's start all the way back kind of in undergrad or you know how did you build up towards that

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