USC to TD/Cowan in NY | Chat with Samay

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Join us as Samay, a student from USC, shares his journey from almost pursuing a pre-med path to landing a prestigious role in healthcare investment banking at TD Cowan, New York. 🚀 From switching majors in his freshman year to overcoming late networking hurdles, Samay's story is a testament to resilience and smart career moves. Learn how he navigated the competitive recruiting process, leveraged mentorship, and cracked the finance industry. 🎯 👉 Stay till the end for tips on mastering interviews and networking strategies! 💼✨ #InvestmentBanking #USC #CareerJourney #HealthcareBanking #TDCowan #NetworkingTips #FinanceCareers ----------------------------------------------------------- 🎯 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗔 𝟲-𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗘 (𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗗) Interested in landing a role that can pay you upward of $𝟮𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 right out of the gate? What if that was guaranteed? Come learn more about WSO Academy: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube ----------------------------------------------------------- 𝗪𝗦𝗢 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘂𝗽 - ⁠⁠𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗨𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲⁠⁠ https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/media/newsletters/wso-weekly-wrapup The Daily Peel - Sign Up Here https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/media/newsletters/the-daily-peel Join our Discord - Sign Up Here https://discord.gg/Dn3YJZTbsF ----------------------------------------------------------- 𝗪𝗦𝗢 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-oasis/id1463441793 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nQxuApNXFkUSvojQGKyAQ?si=GrYh2zIHSsub8S8xIX0PjQ&nd=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/wall-street-oasis-2 ----------------------------------------------------------- WSO Courses: https://bit.ly/2ESzrv2 WSO Resume Review: https://bit.ly/2Z0DFYq WSO Mentors: https://bit.ly/3lIHoUi WSO Events: https://bit.ly/350vMGd

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis. Thanks for joining us today.
0:04.7	We have a great chat with Simei from USC who ended up getting a role at TD Cowan in New York
0:10.7	in the healthcare group. He was super excited. He broke in. I think really his story is just highlights
0:16.3	the fact that like being human, being good conversationalist really does matter in these interviews.
0:21.5	He was super late. He hadn't even started really aggressively networking until January,
0:25.3	which for all of those in the U.S. know is pretty late for sophomores to be trying to get the
0:30.0	junior summer internship. Take a listen in terms of how he turned it around and was able to
0:34.0	still get a great offer. Enjoy. All right, Sammy, thanks so much for taking
0:52.9	the time to speak with us today.
0:55.0	Of course, of course.
0:56.0	So I'd love to just give the listeners a short summary bio to kind of start this off and then we'll kind of dive into your whole process.
1:03.0	All right. So my name is my name is my I'm originally from Alabama, but I ended up coming to school at USC because that was just the best school that I got into. I was originally going to be pre-med for the first 18 hours of my life, but once I got to school,
1:15.6	you know, I wanted to explore my passion sort of more and I ended up finding finance and that was what I ended up switching into.
1:22.6	And from there, I ended up being interested in, you know, the clubs here are the finance clubs.
1:28.4	And that kind of started my journey into like the finance career world.
1:32.7	Nice. And so you went, did that happen like freshman year and a freshman year where you kind
1:37.3	of switched a little bit in terms of your, your passion? Or was it more like early sophomore year?
1:41.6	It was actually at the beginning of freshman year. Like after I had gotten into USC, it was like I had actually switched major before actually
1:49.8	arriving on campus because it was much easier to do it that way.
1:54.1	Because once you're here, you have to take prerequisites and everything and go through a whole
1:57.3	transfer process.
1:58.2	But if you do it before you actually get here, they just reevaluate your high school application.
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