The Road to Wall Street

As many of you know I am pursuing a job on Wall Street. So far I have applied for over 150 positions and have received little feedback in the form of rejection letters. Hiring season for 2012 analyst started August 1st 2011 and I have been applying to these positions which will start in the summer of 2012. My resume has greatly improved since last year and will increase my chances of landing a job on Wall Street. Along with job applications, I am working on graduate applications for a masters in financial engineering which entails taking the GRE, writing a few statements of purpose, some interview videos, and collecting recommendation letters. I am currently studying for the GRE so that I can get high enough scores for the specific programs that I am applying for. For those of you who don't know what the GRE is, it is the Graduate Record Examination which consists of a verbal section, quantitative section, a research section, an unscored section, and two essays which must be done in 30 minutes or less for each essay. The entire exam takes about 3 hours and 45 minutes.

So far the road to Wall Street has been difficult but that is what makes a Wall Street job so rewarding.