The Office of Career Development

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Preview Day 2003

• Welcome !
• The Office of Career Development

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Office of Career Development(www.stern.nyu.edu/oc
d)

• OUR MISSION
• To help you
• Identify your career employment goals
• Develop strategy,
• Refine your career development skills,
• Identify opportunities,
• Get the best start on the next phase of your
  professional life.

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OCD Who are we?

• A group of smart people with a diverse set of
  backgrounds
• Two main functions
• Career Counseling
• Corporate Recruiting
• Great staff dedicated to helping you choose the
  career direction that is right for you.

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What does OCD do?

• Counseling
• Workshops Individual Counseling on
• Career choice
• Job search strategy
• Networking
• Resume writing
• Interviewing skills
• Interview preparation
• Access to Alumni
• Club Liaison

• Recruiting
• Corporate Relationships
• Recruiter Development
• Corporate Presentations
• On-Campus Recruiting
• Career Fairs
• Job Postings
• Club Liaison

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Job Market Trends

• Overview
• Consulting Industry hard hit by economic
  downturn.
• Banking still hiring some efforts scaled back.
• Marketing still hiring, but conservative.

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OCD Initiatives

• To find new opportunities
• Outreach to
• New company targets
• Alumni
• Faculty contacts
• More networking opportunities
• Support for club initatives
• To prepare you even better
• Strategy skill development programs
• Career Development Program

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What can I do with an MBA?
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Investment Banking SectorCorporate Finance

• How many 2002 graduates?
• 23
• What is it? The Investment banking side
• Marketing of and providing MA advisory,
  underwriting and capital raising services to
  corporate clients
• What are the top skills?
• Analytical investigate analyze corporate
  client financial statements
• Communication present sell ideas
• Project management internal point person on the
  deal team
• Where can you do it?
• Investment Banks, commercial banks, boutique
  banks finance companies

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Equity Fixed Income Sales Trading

• How many 2002 graduates?
• 9
• What is it?
• Equity stocks Fixed Income Bonds
• Sales Calling on clients to pitch business,
  preparing materials, making presentations,
  working on the trading floor in an extremely
  fast-paced environment.
• Trading Buying selling securities committing
  firm's capital (if I-bank), managing positions
  and working in an extremely fast-paced
  environment.
• Sales trading sometimes combined.

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Equity Fixed Income Sales Trading, cont.

• What are the top skills?
• Interpersonal/Communication
• Sales being persuasive
• Trading act as a liaison between multiple
  parties
• Decisiveness Ability to Work under Pressure
• Financial
• Analytical
• Sales interpret research evaluate competition
• Trading analyze improve information flow
  between traders
• Where can you do it?
• Sales - Bulge bracket boutique investment
  banks
• Trading Bulge bracket investment banks,
  boutique investment banks, investment management
  firms, brokerage firms

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Equity Fixed Income Research The Sell-side

• How many 2002 graduates?
• 11
• What is it?
• sell or market stocks to investors
• Conduct research publish reports on individual
  companies within a specific sector or industry
• What are the top skills?
• Communication write research reports make
  presentations
• Analytical Quantitative modeling, company
  analysis, pricing
• Interpersonal interact with company mgmt., sales
  force, traders and bankers
• Where can you do it?
• Investment and commercial banks and boutique
  firms
• Buyside research is similar and is done at mutual
  funds, pensions funds, etc.

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Management Consulting

• How many 2002 graduates?
• 8
• What is it?
• Advising corporations other organizations on
  business strategy or process. Analyze business
  problem, formulate solution, present and/or
  implement.
• What are the top skills?
• Analytical Problem-Solving
• Interpersonal client relationships
• Communication presentations client
  relationships
• Teamwork Leadership working in leading teams
• Priority Management manage multiple projects
• Where can you do it?
• Large consulting firms and boutique consulting
  firms

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The Corporate SectorMarketing

• How many 2002 graduates?
• 14
• What is it?
• Creating, developing, designing communications
  for managing brands
• What are the top skills?
• Communication
• Creativity
• Strategic planning over brands lifecycle
• Analytical analyzing market trends
• Teamwork/Leadership working in and leading
  cross-functional teams
• Where can you do it?
• Consumer products, financial services, media
  entertainment pharmaceutical firms

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General Finance

• How many 2002 graduates?
• 6
• What is it?
• Treasury cash management, project financing
  capital budgeting
• Controller cost accounting and budget control
  and financial analysis
• What are the top skills?
• Analytical analyze firms financing investment
  options analyze financial statements
• Financial
• Interpersonal Interact communicate with all
  levels of staff
• Where can you do it?
• Pharmaceutical, consumer products, utilities,
  energy diversified
• companies

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What can I do with an MBA?
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Two Year Curriculum

• Summer
• Explore interests, industries jobs

Fall Alumni panels, corporate presentations,
workshops, networking, mock interviews
Spring Campus interviews, more networking, new
opportunities, interviewing, refining skills
Summer Internships, receptions, brown bags
Fall Corp presentations, networking, mocks
Fall/Spring Campus interviews, more networking,
new opportunities, interviewing
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What can you do over the summer?

• Research career paths using resources such as
  vault.com and wetfeet.com
• Assess your interests using The Seven Stories
  Exercises
• Prepare your resume to target your career
  interests
• Informational Interview with friends and family
  in your area of career interest.
• August Deepen your insight into career options
  by meeting with a career counselor to discuss the
  results of your Seven Stories Exercise and
  CareerLeader.