Oxford to Private Equity in London | Chat with Ralph Gibson | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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💰Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=mashup-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? 📃 ...besides a GUARANTEED offer in high finance? 🎓 Full course library for life (over $4k of courses and climbing every month) 🆘 Direct access to top high finance pros (1,300+ mentor network). Need a mock from a pro with experience at a specific bank/fund/group last minute? This is covered and unmatched by anyone. 👩‍🏫 Tons of live training. 1-year access to ALL of our live bootcamps (financial modeling, valuation, excel, IB interview, PE interview, VC, etc) ⚙️ Full resume rewrite from Head Mentor + AI tool to ensure high score (90+) based on key criteria such as impact, brevity and style + LinkedIn review + LinkedIn AI review 🎯 1:1 work with Head Mentors (typically 5+hrs) to ensure the answers to Tell Me About Yourself (TMAY) and "Why this industry?" are exceptional, not just great 🗣️ Minimum of 6 mock interviews, but typically 8-10 mocks followed by more to get rewarmed when timing is most critical (recruiting season) 🤖 Hirevue simulator so you're ready to ace these ✅ Excel Assessments (+ numerical reasoning, logic & psychometric) to judge where you stand and see how to beat these tests to land interviews 🧐 A finance research internship with WSO to help brand yourself and land more interviews 🕸️Detailed networking guidance with 6 office hours every week and software to help you scale your outreach efficiently 🛤️ Accountability matrix + coach to keep you on track and guide you through the program 👴 Lifetime access to the full alum Slack community for life (super powerful) ➕ a ton more.... ⌛ JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://wallstreetoasis.com/academy?a... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IS WSO ACADEMY FOR YOU? WSO Academy is not just for target school or 3.7+ GPA students. We have helped applicants from all backgrounds dramatically improve their odds. The answer is yes if... You are interested in investment banking as a career and are motivated to break in. You have been rejected (or ghosted) despite applying to hundreds of investment banking jobs online. You are unsure how to network with those in investment banking to land interviews. You struggle to answer the most difficult technical questions that you need to ace to land the offer. Your answers to the behavioral questions are good, but not exceptional. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💰 Land A High Finance Career: https://wallstreetoasis.com/academy?a... WSO Academy was founded and is currently run by Patrick Curtis who is the CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis, the largest online community focused on careers in finance with over 1,000,000+ members and 20 million+ unique visitors every year. The 50+ head mentors for WSO Academy were selected from a pool of over 1,300 mentors and have helped thousands of students break into careers in Wall Street over the past decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⌛ JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://wallstreetoasis.com/academy?a... #finance #investmentbanking #privateequity #hedgefund #consulting #venturecapital #wallstreet ---------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us: • LinkedIn - / wall-street-oasis • Instagram - / wallstreetoasis • Facebook - / wallstreetoasis • Twitter - / wallstreetoasis • Tiktok - / wallstreetoasis --------------------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wells Street Oasis.
0:03.1	Today we have another great chat today with Ralph.
0:06.0	Ralph comes to us from Oxford.
0:07.2	He's currently getting his master's in biochemistry.
0:10.0	So not an easy major.
0:11.5	Listen to what he did in order to transition from a biochem major to actually be competitive
0:19.4	for these finance roles. And and more specifically how he was able
0:23.2	to leverage networking and why he joined the academy in order to increase his chances of landing
0:28.1	in private equity. Enjoy. All right, Ralph, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.
0:49.7	Yeah, yeah, no worries at all, Patrick.
0:51.7	He'll good.
0:52.5	So it would be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summary bio.
0:57.2	Yeah, absolutely.
0:58.3	So I am a penultimate year student.
1:01.6	I study at Oxford.
1:03.0	I do biochemistry, so very sort of unorthodox academic backgrounds.
1:09.4	Really easy major you chose there, yeah then not to make it easy
1:13.1	possible yeah um but yeah you know always kind of had a scientific background but i think you know
1:21.3	after a year or two at university i i looked at my life and i thought you know what do i really want to
1:27.0	make out of this and
1:28.1	landed on some sort of my finance role.
1:31.2	Didn't know exactly what yet.
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