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, Chris shares his path from the University of Zurich to working in

cities in London office for 14 years. Listen to hear his recruiting advice, what it was like

when the great financial crisis hit when he

was an analyst in 2008, what that meant to his future, how his roles and pay shifted as he got

promoted, as well as some dues and don'ts while networking. Enjoy.

Chris, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Hi, Patrick. Good to speak to you today.

So it would be awesome if you could give the listeners a short summary bio.

Sure. My name is Christopher Wickley. I was a director at City after 14 years of experience at Citigroup in equity capital markets,

covering Northern Europe. Prior to that, I also worked and studied. At the same time,

I finished my degrees at the University of Zurich in Switzerland in

2007 joined directly city in the in the grad program and next to my studies I was working at a

firm called Kepa equities which came out of Judeo spare the Swiss private bank in the

brokerage division and in brokerage

and equity research. So basically to this day today I just left city, an opportunity to speak

a bit about the industry for you guys and maybe give a bit some insights into what a career

investment banking means.

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