How to Break Into Investment Banking | Finance Career Advice

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Breaking into investment banking and other competitive finance roles can feel confusing without the right guidance. In this mentor session, we discuss the realities of finance recruiting, networking, and preparing for high-performance careers in the industry. This conversation covers practical insights for students and early-career professionals looking to understand how recruiting actually works and what it takes to succeed in demanding finance roles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👇👇👇 Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy 🚀💼📈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/academy 💪🔥

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0:00.0	Year one was tough.
0:01.0	I really had to learn very fast and then there was, you have to learn Bloomberg.
0:05.0	I was trying to see where I could map my skill, my competencies and then one day I was like,
0:11.0	okay, let me try on the other side of the business.
0:14.0	I came here in France with nothing, literally.
0:17.0	But I felt the equity returns market has a big language barrier.
0:20.0	They wanted fluent French and I was not there.
0:23.2	I have to take the leap of faith.
0:25.2	Any advice you'd give to kind of younger students?
0:27.5	I will say that.
0:42.4	Okay, Parshita, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.
0:43.4	Thank you so much.
0:44.8	I'm glad to be here as well.
0:49.7	It would be great if you could kind of start off just by giving the listeners a short summary bio where you're from, all that great stuff. Yeah, sure.
0:50.6	So I'm from, Pashtita.
0:52.5	I'm from India.
0:58.1	Basically, I'm from Calcutta, which is a small town, the east part of India.
1:05.5	And right now I'm in Paris, working as a finance professional, basically in investor relation.
1:06.7	So I have more than 10 years of experience in areas, equity research and investor relation mainly.
1:14.8	I started my career in India.
1:17.6	I started working in HSBC as an equity research.
1:21.7	And I walked with, I mean, so I worked in geographies such as UK, London and Dubai.
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