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 Noel Budapest explains his path to becoming an investment analyst

at one of the top asset managers in the world, how he landed a summer internship at Google,

and then a bulge-br bracken investment banking internship his junior

year, what he did when he was forced to move back home after graduation from London to Budapest

when he failed to get a return offer and some critical advice for the younger listeners still in school.

Enjoy. All right, Noel Budapest. Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick overview of your background.

Sure.

So I did my bachelor studies in economics in London.

I went to University of London.

During my studies, I was really focused on getting as much extracurricular activities

on my CV as possible,

just to boost my chances for later full-time and internship applications.

That's how I ended up doing a volunteering project in Kenya in my first year.

In the second year, I think that first year volunteering project

helped me to get into marketing consulting hall at Google.

And I think that internship had me to get into a budget investment bank in London in my third year. After finishing that internship, I actually ended up with

asset management. Can you wait, before we go further, can when you go back to that first internship,

you said you did something in Kenya? Yes, that was a volunteering project where...

So that's different.

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