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.

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Member S. Man 540 shares his journey from a small boutique bank to a reputable bulge bracket investment bank.

How he struck out the first time with on-cycle private equity recruiting while at the boutique

and how he recovered the second time around while at the bulge bracket. Learn how intense the

on-cycle private equity recruiting process is and why it's similar to a hostage situation. Enjoy. Sman 540. Thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Patrick.

Cool, ma'am. So it would be great if you could give a quick summary of your background.

Sure. So I'm born and bred from New York. Both my parents are physicians. So

growing up, I always had an interest in health care, but didn't really know what I wanted to do

professionally. And then ended up going to a target school for undergrad. And pretty much everyone

was funneled into either consulting or banking and I was

studying health care policy at the time so I thought I'd try to combine the health care that I grew up

with with just this banking push that everyone else was doing and turned out I actually ended up

really liking it really having an interest in finance so I did a internship in a markets group at a bulge bracket. My sophomore

year leveraged that to break into front office role with an investment banking with a boutique,

a healthcare boutique, my junior year for my internship, I accepted that role full time. And then

after six months from the job job received a lateral opportunity to switch

to a bulge bracket still in investment banking but within a different vertical and I've been doing

that for the last eight months now great and real quick so you specifically going back to

kind of undergrad when you were when you made that decision of like,

okay, finance does interest me, what, that was, you said sophomore year?

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