Italy to KPMG | Chat with Jack | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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From modern languages in Italy to a finance role at KPMG Ireland — Jack’s journey is anything but traditional. In this candid and high-energy chat, Jack shares how he went from zero finance experience to landing a job in deal advisory at the Big 4. Learn how he leveraged WSO Academy’s bootcamps, built a powerful networking engine (including a photo with the global CEO of KPMG!), and turned his authentic personality into a major asset. If you're coming from a non-target or non-finance background, this one’s for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👇👇👇 Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube 🚀💼📈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube 💪🔥 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technicals or behavioral answers need work ✅ You’re not from a target school or have below a 3.7 GPA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube WSO Academy is the largest online finance community with 1M+ members and 20M+ annual visitors. The 50+ head mentors in the program were handpicked from 1,300+ finance pros. They’ve helped thousands break into Wall Street careers over the past decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🎓 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #finance #investmentbanking #privateequity #hedgefund #consulting #venturecapital #wallstreet The Daily Peel Newsletter 📰 → https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/media/newsletters/the-daily-peel 🎧 Listen to the Podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-oasis/id1463441793 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nQxuApNXFkUSvojQGKyAQ?si=GrYh2zIHSsub8S8xIX0PjQ&nd=1 📚 WSO Resources: Courses: https://bit.ly/2ESzrv2 Resume Review: https://bit.ly/2Z0DFYq Mentors: https://bit.ly/3lIHoUi Events: https://bit.ly/350vMGd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 📱 Follow us: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok → @wallstreetoasis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis. Today we have a really fun chat with Jack.
0:05.6	Jack is probably the most non-traditional student that has ever been accepted into Academy. And he
0:11.4	basically had a degree in modern languages, number one, in Italy. Number two, he's Irish, number three.
0:18.2	And he came to us post-graduation.
0:24.1	But what was really clear about Jack was he was incredibly authentic.
0:26.2	He was very fun to be around.
0:28.4	As you'll see in this chat today, he's fun to talk with.
0:31.2	Listen to specifically how he leveraged us most.
0:35.0	You won't be surprised that given his liberal arts kind of language background,
0:36.8	he did have some catching up to do.
0:43.6	But I want you to really pay attention to kind of what he did on the networking side that sent him apart and got him on the track to a finance career.
1:01.9	Enjoy. All right, Jack, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with us today.
1:04.8	No, it's all my pleasure, yeah.
1:08.7	So I'd love it if you could just give the listeners kind of a short summary bio, kind of where you're from, all the good stuff.
1:10.1	Yeah, so I'm from Ireland, I'm from Dublin, but for university, I went to Italy. I studied
1:16.3	languages. And halfway through my degree, I realized, you know, I did a couple of courses in
1:23.0	economics and business, and I realized that I kind of wanted to go into finance, I wanted something a bit more numbers related, because I like languages, but I just felt like I wanted something more numerical and something that wasn't, some people say don't turn your passion into your job, so I couldn't do languages all day you know but I really I'm very interested in in
1:44.6	the news and financial news and and that kind of stuff so I kind of made my decision halfway through
1:51.1	my degree that that's where I wanted to go but I didn't really have tools or any time to do it
1:56.3	because there was it wasn't the place where I could find an internship easily or I couldn't.
2:03.5	It wasn't Bocconi.
2:04.4	Let's put it this way.
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