Recruiting moves up earlier and earlier each year. Soon, banks may recruit elementary school students for internships 15 years in advance. So, what happens if you complete a liberal arts major, have no finance-related experience, and then decide to apply for investment banking roles in your late 20s? Most people would say it’s impossible – […]

Is it possible to make a 180-degree career change after you’ve already attended and graduated from medical school? We get a fair number of questions about this one, but in the past, I’ve always said, “Sorry, keep dreaming.” But… I might have been overly pessimistic. I recently spoke with a reader who made it into […]

  You would think that after many years of covering networking tactics across hundreds of articles, videos, and even a full-fledged course on networking, there would be nothing left to say about it. But you’d be wrong. I was skeptical when our interviewee today contacted me and offered to share the story of how he […]

If you’re interested in finance, you probably have a Type A personality: You’re highly competitive; You care a lot about achievement and money; You love multi-tasking, you’re a perfectionist, and you’re always rushing around to finish work. And normally the finance industry would be a good it for you – except for when there are […]