From Business Data Science to Banking: My Journey & Lessons for Students

Wall Street Oasis

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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From studying Business Data Science to landing a role in investment banking at Centerview Partners, this is my honest story of how I discovered my path, the mistakes I made, and what I wish every student knew before starting their career. In this video, I share how I transitioned from college to corporate life — the lessons I learned outside the classroom, why real-world experience matters, and how small opportunities can lead to big growth. Whether you're a university student, career changer, or just curious about finance and personal growth, this episode will give you insight, motivation, and practical steps to help you find your direction. 👇👇👇 Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/acade... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT IS WSO ACADEMY? It's a 12-week program to dramatically increase your odds of landing a 6-figure+ role in high finance... What’s included? 💥 GUARANTEED offer in high finance 🎓 Full course library for life (over $4k+ of content) 👥 Direct access to 1,300+ top mentors across banks & funds 📚 Tons of live training bootcamps (IB, PE, VC, Excel, etc.) 📄 Full resume rewrite + LinkedIn review (human + AI) 🧠 1:1 work with Head Mentors on TMAY + behavioral questions 🗣️ 6–10+ mock interviews, HireVue prep, Excel + logic assessments 🏢 Internship with WSO for resume branding 📬 Proven networking strategy & outreach software 🧭 Accountability coach & progress matrix 💬 Lifetime access to the exclusive alum Slack community 👉 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/acade... 💪🔥 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IS WSO ACADEMY FOR YOU? Yes, if any of the below sound like you: ✅ You want to break into investment banking but don’t know where to start ✅ You've applied to 100+ jobs and heard nothing back ✅ You’re not sure how to network effectively ✅ Your technical or behavioral answers need work ✅ You’re not from a target school or have below a 3.7 GPA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	I definitely have days and weeks where I work longer than that, but I think in turn was generally
0:04.8	ranges from.
0:18.4	Okay, May, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.
0:21.1	Thank you, Patrick.
0:22.0	Excited to talk.
0:23.2	Excited to chat.
0:24.3	Yes, so if you could just start by giving the listeners a short summary bio, very high level,
0:28.7	just so they understand some context.
0:31.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:32.1	My name is May.
0:32.9	I'm currently an associate at TA.
0:34.6	I've been a TA for about two years now, so I started in July of
0:38.3	2003.
0:39.6	Before TA, I was a center view for two years, primarily focusing on tech investment banking,
0:45.3	M&A advisory award, graduate from Berkeley in May of 2021.
0:50.6	So spend four years of Berkeley, I studied business and data science there, did a whole bunch of internship, tested a bunch
0:56.8	of different things and decided to pursue banking after graduation.
1:00.5	So I'm happy to talk a little bit about that as well today.
1:04.1	Awesome.
1:05.1	Thanks for joining us.
1:06.2	So let's start just back at like when you got to Berkeley, were you thinking finance for sure is what i want to do
1:12.0	like did you know do you have family in it that talked to you about it like talked to a little bit about
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