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, Emily shares her path from a non-target school to landing a summer internship at Goldman Sachs.

What she did when she didn't get the return offer in 2008 and a detailed dive into the day-to-day

of analysts in the fund advisory

group at Lazard. Learn how that group and working as a placement agent is different from

investment banking and why a transition to investor relations in private equity is a natural

next step. Also, don't miss some important advice on the one thing you should believe in

before taking on significant career risk.

Enjoy.

It's great. It would be great be here. Thanks for having me.

It would be great if you could give the listeners just a short summary of your bio.

Sure.

So I graduated from college in 2008 and I did my summer internship between my junior and senior

year in banking at Goldman and the industrials group.

Then upon graduating, I went to Wazaar and their private fund advisory group,

which does fundraising for third party private equity firms.

And then I've now been at Searchlight for seven and a half years, which is hard to believe.

But here I'm head of investor relations and also chief of staff for the firm. So

do a variety of different things here. Seven years is a good run. That's very impressive.

So you're graduating in probably the worst year in the last whatever, quarter, you know,

century or so, or since the Great Depression. So tell me me 2008, you have the summer internship at Goldman.

Do you get the return offer or was it something like really tough in the summer?

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