So we're recording this presentation. It will be posted to the Cornell Career Services website in the media library once we actually transcribe it. So it'll take a little while to get up. We're also going to email the slides to all of the participants. Within the next few days, you'll at least be able to look at the slides before the transcription has been completed. We are taking questions, although I will say we have a lot of material to get through. So I I'm mostly going to be answering questions at the end. But please, if you have a question, you can submit it in the Q&A box, not the chat box. That way we can just make sure we're paying attention to one box instead of multiple things. And Solomon's gonna be kinda keeping track of that. Alright, So I'm going to mute my videos so I'm not distracting everyone. So here are a few other things that we're going to talk about today. We are going to quickly just kind of go through some ideas about some academic suggestions that we have for you. We're going to talk about how to explore various positions in the finance industry. We're going to talk a little bit about networking, a little bit about how to prepare to apply for these types of positions, as well as finding opportunities, will look a little bit at the timeline for recruiting and then gives some ideas for some next steps that might be helpful as you are starting to explore this area of finance. Alright, so let's talk a little bit about academics. One thing to be aware of in the finance industry, they do not care what your major is. You can have any major. What they're really looking for is for you to have particular skills and an interest in finance. That being said, there are a few courses that are very helpful to prepare you for the field of finance. And also great to have on your resume. So folks can see that interest. Financial accounting is usually a good one to start off with. That's going to give me the language of finance, which is helpful when you're looking into this industry. Any kind of statistics course is helpful, economics courses. Really, they're looking for skills. So one skill that will be really beneficial for you to have if you're interested in finance is to be able to use Microsoft Excel, not just in a spreadsheet way, but being able to create pivot tables, do financial modeling, those kinds of things. You're going to definitely want to brush up on your Excel skills. Something else to note is that GPA does matter. So generally we are looking at a 3.5 for general finance. If you are interested in investment banking or sales and trading, most companies are looking for a 3.8 or higher. So just something to keep in mind as you are focusing on your classes, make sure you're keeping those grades up, that's going to be important. So let's talk a little bit about how to explore different positions in a finance. This is a really important step that sometimes folks forget about and it's going to be helpful as you start to look more into this industry. We're gonna talk a little bit more about how to do some industry research. This is a good place to start to learn the difference between various roles and departments. We're also gonna talk about networking as a way to explore the industry a little bit more. So some of the types of summer positions that you might find in finance are listed here. We might be looking at sales and trading, global markets, equity research or investment research. There's a lot of different areas. One of the things that you're going to want to start to explore is the difference between these things and why you are interested in the ones that you are interested in. We want to look, do you want to work on the buy side or the sell side? Are you interested in working with banks or institutions? Corporations or individuals? and kind of learn that difference between investment banking or sales and trading versus portfolio management or equity research are going to be looking for slightly different scales. So those are some things you're gonna wanna develop over time as you start to explore. One thing to really be aware of is that we say industry does not equal job title. So there are financial roles in all industries. Certainly we have finance companies, but there are also finance roles in health care, in government and non-profits. So as you are looking for possible experiences, sometimes even looking at finance roles in industries that are not particularly the finance industry can be a great way to get some experience early on in your academic career. Usually folks will hire alongside the timeline of the industry and we'll talk about that a little bit. Different industries will hire at different timelines. So finance and tech hire very early. We will discuss what that looks like. Or you may have finance roles in government or nonprofits that aren't going to be hiring until much later in the academic year, usually in the spring semester. So just some things to think about as you're exploring the area. So what if I don't know what I want? What if I have no idea what those things are that I was just talking about, that's okay. We have a lot of really helpful resources that you can use to learn a little bit more about these different areas. And I have these linked. So when I send this out to folks, you will get the links as well and you'll be able to click on these. Vault Guides are a great place to start. We have Vault Guides covering just overall finance. You can kind of get a quick feel for the difference between various departments and various roles within the finance industry, as well as more deep dives into specific areas. So if you're reading about all of them and hedge funds sounds really interesting to you, you can kind of do a deeper dive into learning about that. There are some great employer websites out there to help you look at the different divisions in finance, Goldman Sachs has a really great website. They break it down by division and you can look at kind of what the different roles are. And how they vary in focus. And then there's a lot of resources out there as well. Things like Investopedia or Wall Street oasis, Wall Street prep that have really good resources around differences within these areas, as well as some resources to help you learn a little bit more about the technical aspects of finance and prepare for kind of those technical interviews that you might hit at some point. The Corporate Finance Institute has a great map that is a really good visual to help you kinda look at buy side versus sell side and things like that as well. So these are some good places just to start learning a little bit more about the industry. So let's talk a little bit about networking as well. Networking is something that you're going to talk about a lot during your academic career here, when we're talking about career exploration as well as at job search time. Networking is a really helpful way to start to explore different industries. It's one of the fundamental pieces of finance research. It's very tough to get a finance opportunity without doing some kind of networking as well. So though it is great for exploring, it's also great to get those connections for when you are applying. So what is networking? How do you do it? So networking is really more of an ongoing process. One thing that is not, a lot of times people think that networking is reaching out and asking people for a job. That's not what we're talking about. What we're talking about is creating this ongoing process of building relationships. So that you can learn a little bit more about an industry. And some people you may talk with only once. Others could be connections that you maintain throughout your whole time at Cornell, depending on how much you connect with them or how helpful they've been. It's not asking people for a job or to get you an in. We do hope it turns into that at some point, but that's not the initial purpose of the outreach. It can really just help to meet new people, learn more about the industry, get advice and learn from people's experiences. Maybe you can ask them about courses that were helpful or how they navigated the internship search process, or what skills do they wish they had when they were starting to apply for finance positions. Sometimes networking can happen when you're not even doing it on purpose, when you don't even know it. So you can be prepared to talk about what you're interested in, why you're interested in it at anytime, because you never know who you're gonna meet. You don't necessarily have to have a complete clear picture of your future at this point. But being able to talk about your interests can be really helpful. When you are networking. Just a few quick tips in here. One good thing is to start to ask people for advice that could be asking who else they recommend that you speak with? What course do they recommend that you take? It's helpful to take notes and ask questions while you're talking with folks. Really, we're talking about doing informational interviews. So reaching out, asking somebody if they'd be willing to talk to you a little bit about their own experience and having a conversation with them about it. It can be kind of a two-way street. So here are some resources that can be helpful when we're starting to think about networking. First off is just those on-campus resources that we have. Again, we're talking about networking for the purpose of learning and growing your connection. Career fairs are a great way to start to meet folks. Career fairs are not something that you're going to come out with a specific job in hand. But they are a great place to meet recruiters from different companies and organizations and learn a little bit more about the organization. Then you can also reach out afterwards to hopefully work this into getting a position there. We do have career fairs on campus. You can always look to see who's coming ahead of time and kind of prepare to talk with folks. Other things, employer information sessions. We'll talk a little bit more about the different types of sessions, but we have folks coming from all different companies and industries to talk a little bit more about the industry, to talk about their particular company. All of these things can be found in handshake. So in handshake under the Event tab, these are some of the things that you'll be able to find. Within arts and sciences, we do also have some really great networking with alumni. So our arts and sciences Career Connections committee is wonderful. This is a group of alum who have volunteered to come to different panels and talk about their industry. We do have networking receptions generally in-person in New York City in January and in June. But right now those things are being done virtually. So, you may have seen the Jumpstart series of events in handshake. These are the series with Cornell alum in the industry. These folks are also willing to be contacted just to talk a little bit more about their experience. They are not to be contacted to ask for jobs, but to talk a little bit more about the industry and how they got involved. We also host career conversations which are open to arts and sciences as well as engineering students. That's alum coming back to talk a little bit about their own careers and give advice. So instead of like a networking panel, it's more of a one person talking about their experience and then answering questions. You can check with your home career office about other alumni events and ways to get engaged as well. CUeLinks is a great place to find folks who you may want to reach out to. CUeLinks is like Linked In for Cornell specifically. These are alum who have purposely opted in to be contacted by folks. So you can go in here and search the network by finance, for instance. And I think we've got about 580 people on CUeLinks who work in industries of finance. You can reach out to them through there. Linkedin is another great way to find people, and I'm gonna show you how to do that briefly in a minute. And personal connections, this is something that people forget about a lot, but you know people, you may not even know that you know people. So think about who you may already have connections with. Do you have any family who are connected to the industry or friends who might have family. Don't forget about people in your clubs and organizations. You may not be in a financial club, but there may be plenty of people in your organization that are connected to the industry you're interested in. So thinking about who you know and who they know can also be really helpful. So let's talk briefly about LinkedIn. Linkedin is a great place to look for Cornell alum who you might want to talk to. If you don't have a LinkedIn account already, that's OK. But I would recommend that you get one, especially if you are interested in finance, it's going to be a great way for you to be connecting. In LinkedIn, you can actually go to Cornell's page and you'll see this little box on the left hand side with a red circle and you can click on alumni and then you can actually search through alumni by what they do, where they work. We can look by job title. Or here, for instance, we typed in Bank of America and now we have the folks who work at Bank of America. So you can find folks at different companies as well. It's a really great tool. When you are looking at LinkedIn. Once you see somebody who's maybe interesting to you, click on their account and you can look a little bit more at the experience they had. This is going to help you to see what kinds of programs are out there. Sometimes you can also see an experience they had when they were a first-year or sophomore student. Which might be worth looking into, because you already know that that organization does hire first years and sophomores. So certainly worth taking a look at. Although take a look under their education section, they will often list the organizations that they were a part of. This can be a really great way to make a personal connection with somebody and reach out to them. Maybe you are part of one of the Multicultural Greek organizations on campus. If you see that they were part of that organization, you could reach out to them and say, hey, I noticed that we are both part of this particular program. I wondered if you might be willing to talk with me a little bit. So trying to make those personal connections can be really helpful. As we've talked about, employer information sessions are a really great thing for you to be attending now in your first year. So these sessions vary in style. You can find them on handshake in the Events tab. You can also, if there's particular employers you're interested in, in handshake, you can actually mark them as favorites. So you'll know if they're posting an event or a job or anything like that. It will alert you. Some of the different things when we're looking at employer events, we do have coffee chats. These are usually smaller, kind of more intimate conversations. If you're going to come to a coffee chat, definitely be prepared to ask some questions at the much smaller group so that you can have a better conversation. We do have other info sessions, sometimes info sessions are just a little bit more about the industry. Sometimes they are more topic or identity-based. So for instance, has a resume event on February 16th, talking about how to stand out with your resume. Blackstone has a future women leaders program that will be in March, but you need to register by February 7th. That might be something to look into. There's also a focus on finance series coming up. So we have folks like Goldman coming in, Goldman Sachs to talk about preparing for your first round interview. Or folks coming in to talk about markets and how to look at market. Certainly some great things to be getting involved in. And at these events, we do generally recommend that you dress business formal. At least on the top half at this point, would be a good idea. Finance is a pretty conservative industry, and they do want you to come professionally dressed. If you don't have that professional clothing yet, that's okay. We actually do have the arts and sciences Professional Development Fund. We can assist you with the money to purchase suits as well, something to look into. If that is something that would be helpful. For the employer info sessions, it is helpful to come a little bit prepared. So doing a little bit of research on the employer, think about questions you might want to ask that way you can be engaged in the conversation. And when you are talking with employers, be professional. And one thing we say is act like a human and treat the employer like a human. We've had employers talk about the fact that people will come up, shake their hands and scream a personal pitch into their face. They're like, I'm a person too. Please just talk to me like a person. So make sure that you're treating them like someone who actually wants to, somebody you want to have a conversation with, not that you're just trying to get something from when you're talking with employers. It is helpful to attend these sessions just to get a little bit more information, but also employers do track who attends these sessions. So they will know when you start to come to different events that they're hosting on campus. We had a student whose GPA was a little lower than what an internship was requiring. But the recruiter pushed their applications through because they had seen them at every single event that that employer had put on. And so they thought that that was something that was important. So really when we're talking about attending some of these events, when you're applying to a company, hopefully that is not the first time they're hearing your name. You've been engaged and you've attended different things and met with different folks in that company. So let's talk a little bit about preparing to apply. Some application materials that are going to be important for you. Some things that employers are looking for. Your resume is something that you will want to put together. A college level resume is a one page resume. We are happy to help you develop a resume that really meets the needs of the industry that you're looking for. So please feel free to make an appointment anytime. Some things to think about on your resume when we're looking at finance, we really want to highlight your analytical skills. So we want to include metrics wherever possible and numbers wherever possible. Thinking about things like. If you increase participation in the club through marketing, how much did you increase it, making sure that you're adding those numbers in. They're looking for results driven descriptions. So really talking about accomplishments in your job, in the descriptions of your experiences is helpful as well. Again, Finance doesn't really care what your major is, but they are asking for specific experiences. You're gonna wanna highlight previous internships on their clubs and organizations, relevant coursework. They're looking for an interest in finance. So anything you can do to include some interest in finance can be helpful. Adding your finance courses on there, or if you've taken any different courses online or anything like that, those kinds of things can also be added to your resume. One thing that's particular to finance folks, do you want to see your SAT or ACT scores on the resume. GPA is also really important. Something to remember that Cornell is on a 4.3 scale. So you may have to do some conversion, and we can help you do that if necessary. But as we talked about, most employers want a 3.5 for general finance, 3.8 for IB or trading. So just some things to think about, but we do want to put that GPA on your resume. Folks will also sometimes ask for a cover letter. And that is where you can talk a little bit more about your skills and related to the position. This is more of a written document, paragraph form. And we can certainly help you to create that cover letter if that's something that's needed. And then most folks will also want a transcript. Oftentimes they just want an unofficial transcript which you can download from the student center. These are some things you should start to be prepared for when you're looking for different roles. It is helpful to also understand the HireVue process or the interview process. Some things to think about when we're looking at finance interviews, most companies, will highlight these types of interviews. Your first interview will often be a HireVue or a virtual interview. This is where you're given questions that you need to record yourself answering. There's no one on the other side. It can be a little bit awkward at first. Usually it is timed, you may get a question, have 30 seconds to think about it, and then three minutes to answer. So it can be good to practice ahead of time for these kind of things. But usually that's your first round interview. Then generally organizations will do a phone interview or sometimes a virtual interview. These are usually more behavioral, which we can talk about in a minute. And then oftentimes, especially the larger organizations, will have a super day. So that's a kind of a day long set of interviews. You may have multiple interviews. Some of them will be behavioral, some of them will be case or technical interviews. So usually there's kind of a three-step process when we're looking at interviewing. Some things that you should be prepared to talk about an interview. And this is not something we necessarily have to worry about immediately, but something to be starting to do some research on. Be prepared to discuss current events in the market and specific divisions. You will generally get basic accounting questions in all of your interviews. And then sometimes you'll get technical challenges or case question that you need to answer. A case question is usually a question that involves a little bit of strategy and a little bit of quantitative knowledge to solve a problem. So they may pose something to you and ask you to solve it. We do help with practice interviews, so we can help you do behavioral practice interviews. These are things like tell me about a time you had a conflict at work or tell me about a time you used your analytical skills. That kind of question is a behavioral interview question. Then there will be sometimes those technical interview questions. We don't necessarily prep you for those in our office, but we've got some great resources to do so. You can also talk with alumni in your network or use some of those other resources we talked about earlier, Wall Street prep, training in the street, to do some practice technical interviewing. And as a reminder, networking is important. You need to network in finance to get an interview. It's very important to start to make those connections. So let's talk a little bit about some internship search tools. Here are some great places to start looking for different internships and experiences. Handshake is going to be probably your biggest tool to be looking and we'll talk a little bit more about how to do so. But handshake is our campus job board where employers can go and post openings for current students and recent graduates. You're going to see full-time jobs on there as well as internships. This is going to be your go-to place. Vault also has a job board and have some company rankings. Indeed, and LinkedIn are other places that you can search. Sometimes doing a local search with your regional Chamber of Commerce can be helpful. This can actually be a really great way to find an experience as a first-year student as well. To reach out, look to see who is doing finance work in the area that you're living in for the summer. And then reaching out to them and seeing if they have any internships available. There are also some industry specific job boards that could be things to search on. Idealist.org, for instance, is non-profits. There are certainly finance roles within the non-profit world. So you could be looking at idealist  for some internships. USA  jobs is for federal positions. So if you're interested in the connection of finance and policy or other federal finance roles that could be a good place to be searching. These are just a few places that you can look at. So let's talk a little bit more about handshake. When you go into handshake, you can do a job search. In there, you're gonna find a keyword search. But when you first go in, you can click on internship, which you see highlighted here, to see some different internships that are coming up. So you're gonna click on jobs when you go in. And then you can click on internship to make sure that you are looking for internships specifically. That will weed out all of the fulltime jobs that are being posted. If you click on the All Filters button and you can actually start to filter by positions that will be open for first year and sophomore students. So if you click on that all filters, you can click on employer preferences, as you'll see here. And then click freshmen and 2024. This is going to weed out those positions that are only open for juniors and seniors. So it's a great way to start looking at what might be available to you now. You can also search in the industry section and look at different areas. So in here you may have Investment and Portfolio Management. You may have accounting depends on what you're interested in. You can also search by job function. So for instance, we can click on finance and narrow it down by finance. Oftentimes you don't need to go through all these filters. You can just click on internship, set it for first-year students, and then do some keywords as well. As we're starting to look at these, there is a section that you can click to save your search. That way you don't have to go through all of these steps every time you go in there, set it all up to look for the things that you want to look for and then click Save your search, and then next time you go back in that will already be saved for you. When you click on one of the internships that come up, it'll look a little bit like this. You're going to see the title. You're going to see a little bit about the role as well. Make sure you're paying attention to the application deadline you need to apply by this time or else the job goes away and you can apply for it anymore. Sometimes this will say apply. Sometimes it will say apply externally. You still want to go through handshake when you are applying for these roles. We have a lot of recruiters that work specifically with Cornell. And so it'll flag as a Cornell students when you go through here. So sometimes even though when you click apply externally, it'll take you to, for instance, Goldman's site. We still want to click through handshake. So that's a little bit about how to look for jobs on handshake. Again, this is going to be your go-to place to be looking right now. There are some other things that you can be looking for, especially as a first year student. Most first-year students do not do a full-time internship. There are lots of ways that you can be using your summer to gain some experience. There are some early insight and pre internship type programs that are worth looking into. Some of these are posted on handshake, but the other thing that you can do is go directly to a company's website and search for leadership programs, rotational programs, things like that. Exploratory programs. A lot of times the exploratory and early insight programs are specifically geared to folks who are under-represented in the industry to make sure that they are providing experiences and bringing new insights and new knowledge into the company. Some of the people, some of the organizations that have had programs in the past are listed here. Again, this can change regularly and this is not an exhaustive list, but some, this can be a good place to go to look for some of these early programs. A lot of these programs do have a little bit of a learning component to it. So you may be doing some work and also doing some workshops and taking a little mini classes. Some of them also have some mentorship connected to it. They can be really great programs to get involved and to learn about a company. And again, some of these are posted on handshake and some you'll have to go directly to the site. So let's talk a little bit about timeline and what you should be doing each semester. First off, just thinking about the finance timeline is really important. Finance hires very, very early. So the earliest recruiting are often some middle market and boutique firms who will actually start recruiting like 18 months before the summer of the internship. So we even have folks who are starting to recruit now for summer 2022. These are usually those early recruiting folks. When we talk about  middle markets, I'm talking about things like RBC or Houlihan , SunTrust, BNP. Some of these are some places or some boutique firms. So things like Lazard or Jeffrey's, Guggenheim might be some things you think about. These often hire early because they're trying to beat the bulge bracket firms and offer internships ahead of time so that they can get the best candidates. Your bulge bracket firms will generally recruit the summer before the experience. So about a year ahead, bulge bracket firms are those big name ones, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Bank of America. They will usually start posting July 1. So that is the heavy recruiting season for finance. So this summer, don't worry if you don't have anything yet. But this upcoming summer, you're going to want to start to look for summer 2022 internships and keep an eye on those things they post. There are also plenty of off cycle recruiting organizations. Most of these are finance roles outside of banks. So this is where we'll see maybe those government or non-profit type roles being posted. That would be like right now they'd be being posted for summer. So just one semester ahead of time, it is important to understand the finance timeline and to pay attention to it. Your junior year summer is going to be the most important summer to be getting an internship.  the summer between your junior and senior year. This is where a lot of return offers come from. So we want to make sure that we are building up our experiences this year and next year. So that by your junior year you're going to be able to land that internship that you really want. Just a little bit of a deeper dive when we're talking about timelines right now is that weird time where you may be looking for this summer and for next summer. This isn't something as important right now. But next year if you are starting to be looking in February for your sophomore summer internship, you're going to be want to be looking for your junior summer internship as well. So there's a little bit of a weird overlap. We're seeing the off cycle folks for summer 2021 and then those super early boutique firms for summer 2022. So you're going to see a little bit of an overlap here. So let's talk just briefly about a to-do list, some things that would be helpful for you to think about now. You are first-year students, you do not need to panic at this point. Really, it's about building up some skills that are going to help you as you start to learn a little bit more about the industry and start to look for other professional experiences in the industry. So this spring right now, some things to be looking for, those pre internship, early insight leadership programs. A lot of them are posting this semester. Some posted a little early, but you're still going to see some of them opening up. So that's something to be paying attention to and applying for. Continuing to look and apply for summer 2021 internships, looking at some of those various industries that have some financial roles could be helpful to be starting to do now, as well as start to pay attention to some of those positions that are opening up for summer 2022. Attending employer info sessions is one of the biggest things you can be doing right now. Get on to handshake, start taking a look at what's out there. A lot of the financial employer sessions are starting on the eighth of this month and we actually have seen a few coming through already. So going to some of those different coffee chats, going to some of the workshops, learning a little bit more about the finance industry that way and making connections that way can be a really helpful way to get started. Attend the career conversations and alumni events that are happening. Come join us in the office, set up an appointment. We can help you with your resume. We can help you practice talking about yourself. It's not very often that you go home and say to your roommate, Hey, guess how I use my analytical skills today. So learning how to talk about yourself and your experiences can be a really helpful thing to do now. Come on and meet with us, meet with a career counselor to learn a little bit more about summer 2022 recruiting. So really focusing on next summer experience and making sure you're ready for that and continuing to network. These are some great things for you to be doing right now. Over the summer, so this upcoming summer, we do recommend if you can, that you attend the AS triple C finance team events that is going to be happening probably in June or July, likely that is going to be a virtual event this year. So keep an eye on that in handshake. This summer you're going to be starting to apply for next summer internships. If you haven't already. Remembering that the bulge brackets, your Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley or Bank of America's. They are going to be posting in the summer. If you wait until the fall to start applying, when you get back to campus, you're going to miss some of them. So just make sure you pay attention to those things. Participate maybe this summer if you got into an early Insight program or a different kind of formal internship, make sure you're continuing to network. You're gonna notice we say this a lot, network, network network. Especially if you do end up doing a summer internship or having a summer experience. Make sure you meet the people that you work with and talk with them about their experience. Reflect near the end of the summer, reflect on that experience and had from Summer 2021, did you enjoy it or is it something you'd want to do again? Do you want to do something different? Did you maybe not have a full-time internships or you really want to focus, but think about those skills you did develop throughout the summer. And it can be helpful too to carefully think about the organizations that you're going to want to be applying to for summer 2022 and start making that list so that you're ready for recruiting. So what if I am not selected for a 2021 internship? Like I said earlier, that is okay. Most first-year students do not do a formal internship. There are some great things that you can be doing over the summer to build your industry knowledge and your skills. Doing some of those informational interviews and networking, maybe even doing some job shadowing after you have met some folks in the industry can be great things for you to be using your summer for. Learning a new skill or learning more about the industry so that networking. You also have access as Cornell students to free LinkedIn Learning. So there are plenty of courses on there that you could take around financial modeling, different kinds of equity research, excel, any of those kinds of things. So building up those skills, doing some individual learning can be a great thing to be doing. There are also a lot of free courses on things like Coursera. You could be taking just to learn a little bit more about the industry and to build up those skills. And really any professional experience is going to be helpful. Even if it's not a finance specific role, any kind of business internship, anything where you're meeting with clients, anything that will build up your quantitative skills. Any of those kinds of things are, are completely helpful ways to be using your summer at this point. And then in fall 2021, just so that we are paying attention, remembering that on campus recruiting is going to be happening very early. We do have a career fair, right when we get back from summer break, that would be helpful for you to attend. Again, paying attention to those employer information sessions, alumni events. If you haven't met with us in the career office, by then, make sure you do come in for a resume review. We can talk about cover letters. We can help you practice interviewing, continuing to network. And you will be applying through the summer and into the fall are those big application timelines for you. So just some things to do right now, things that you could do after you leave today. One, take the on-campus recruiting tutorial that you'll find on handshake. The on campus recruiting tutorial is just a quick PowerPoint that you can go through to learn a little bit more about our on-campus recruiting guidelines. Basically things like don't stand an employer up if you sign up for an event, will be on there. Just to let you know what our rules and regulations are about on campus recruiting. You do have to have that completed to be able to do on-campus interviews and things like that. So not necessarily something super, super important that you have to absolutely do today, but I would definitely do it before next academic year. Start to do some research. Again, these, these resources that we've shared are linked. So you can go in and start to look at the vault guides, start to explore handshake, see what kind of events are out there. Prepare for that summer internship search if you're looking for an internship this summer again, come on in. We can help you with resumes, cover letters, I say come in, set up an appointment online because we are not in the office right now. We're doing everything virtually but set up an appointment we can walk you through some of those things. Make sure you're taking some time developing that handshake profile and network, network network. We recommend that you connect with five folks in your area of interest, five alum throughout this next semester or over the summer to get started with that networking process. So now it is question time. If anyone has questions, please feel free to put them in the Q&A box. Any questions about researching, networking? I know we went over a lot of information today. All right. I'm seeing one question. Is there really no preference for major? Would an econ major have a better chance than an engineering or a life sciences major. There is truly no preference. We've had students go into finance from comparative literature or from classics. We've had folks go into finance from biology and chemistry. It's really about the skills that you are developing and that, that interest in finance can be seen in your application materials. So really making sure that you are taking some of those courses that you can put on for coursework. Maybe joining finance related organizations are doing your own self education. Those are some things that we're going to be wanting to put on your resume. So no, you do not have to be an econ major. You do have to have a specific set of skills. We had a question about posting this presentation. Yes, we are recording this presentation. We will transcribe it and post it to the media library on the main Cornell Career Services Media Library. And that's where it will live. We are also going to send out the PowerPoint itself to anyone who attended today before we transcribe, just so you have those resources. I'm seeing a question. Is it necessary to network before applying for pre internship programs or just formal internships? That's a great question. And I would say 1, if the deadline is now apply for any program that you haven't been able to do any networking and the deadline is coming up, Apply anyway. It is helpful for any of these programs to be doing some networking. You can actually even reach out and ask to talk with other students who had been part of those pre internship programs, or to talk with folks a little bit more about those programs. So it can be a great in when you're kind of reaching out and trying to connect with recruiters and things like that. So err on the side of applying. But certainly if you have that time to do some networking, Do it. I'm just going to say thank you so much for the presentation, Kay,  there was a previous question. I answered a little bit earlier, but I was wondering what happens if you're pivoting. So we talked a little about any major, no specific preference, but I was just wondering what would happen if you're pivoting into the finance and maybe your early into that career. Yeah. I would say even if you're pivoting from some other area, again, focusing on those skills and focusing on telling your story and sharing your interest is really helpful. And it kind of quantitative skills that you've developed, even if it's completely unrelated specifically to finance, its still a quantitative skill. So those are some things to highlight on your resume. If you're concerned or you're not quite sure how to highlight those things. We're happy to talk through that with you a little bit more in depth to help you really target those materials towards this industry or any industry. Solomon, Do you want to read some of the other questions? Yeah. And so there's another question about international students. There's a question of if you should use your OPT only for junior year and intern in other countries during freshman and sophomore internships? Yeah, that's a great question. I would say, you know, your OPT can last through those summers. The great thing about finance is that it's actually considered a STEM area. And so you will have that one year of OPT after you graduate that you can be working, but you can actually apply for another additional two years because it is a stem type program. There are also a lot of finance companies that are very willing to sponsor international employees. So I wouldn't worry too much about that OPT. And using that up. Certainly, you're going to have a hard time getting an internship anyway as a first-year student. They want folks with more experience, so that's for everyone. As an international student, that is a little bit of an extra step. So you may want to focus a little bit more on sophomore year, junior year, but your OPT would last that whole time, so I wouldn't worry about overusing your OPT. And then there's a question also kind of going back to networking with alumni. How should we go about that? I also was getting curious about maybe the career conversations. How do you use our office to kind of tap into those networks? Mm-hm. Yeah. Yeah. Also a good question. So I would say when you're approaching alumni for networking, we want to be very specific about why we're approaching them. So think about ways that you can find connections. Maybe you're from the same hometown. Maybe you're involved in the same organization on campus. Maybe you're both really into swing dancing, whatever it is that you can pull that connection with. Really kind of reaching out, sharing a little bit about yourself. So oftentimes, these will happen for CUeLinks or LinkedIn, where you reach out. You say to them, hey, I'm a first year student, I'm starting to explore the industry area of finance. I see this particular thing about you that's really interesting. So make it personalized. And I wondered if you might be willing to spend 20 minutes talking with me a little bit about your experience. Make sure when you're reaching out that you're asking them that type of an ask something that is them being able to share their experience with you. So we won't want to reach out to say, Hey. I wondered if you might be willing to connect me up and get me a job. Because that alumni will probably wonder who you are and why you think, why you think that they owe you anything. But when you reach out to say, you're this person that is really cool doing these amazing things that I want to do, they're much more likely to talk with you about their experience. So personalize it and make it really about learning about the industry or about their own experience. That's usually a great way for reaching out. And then just thinking about what you want to know. What do you want to know about the industry? Give them time to share their own experience. So coming up with questions that really let them share their story. Can you tell me a little bit about what it was like for you searching for internships or how did you decide this was the area of finance you wanted to be working in? Can be great questions. And we can help you brainstorm those too, If you're worried about it. There's also a great networking module on canvas. In the career development toolkit, we've got a lot of different modules that you can sign up for, and I'll link that in the presentation as well. We have modules on interviewing, modules on networking, resume writing, any of those kinds of things that you can learn a little bit more about it in an age with that material. Solomon, to kind of answer you're part of the question using those Career Connections, attending any of these events on campus. A lot of them you can get contact information for the folks who were part of that event and reach out to them. It's a really great in because you can say, hey, I attended this coffee chat where you said this. And I was wondering if you might be willing to tell me a little bit more about this particular topic. So using those events that are on campus to then springboard that and reach out to talk with folks a little bit more personally. Great questions today and anybody out there have a question, we'll wait around for another couple of minutes. And in the meantime, for those of you who don't have any questions that are ready to head out. Thank you for attending the presentation. We will be sending the slides out and come on in and talk to us. We can help you with any piece of exploring and preparing, networking, any of those kinds of things we are here for you. Solomon, is there anything else you wanted to add? No, you did a great job. The only other thing I'd add with networking, make sure you send them an email saying thank you along the way. And that's like the only little thing. But those little tiny remarks go a long way and they'll remember that you're Very thankful to learn about the industry and hear from their respective. So always come from a side of just wanting to learn. And that will take you very far. Great, thanks Solomon. I don't see any other questions, so thank you all for attending. I hope you learned a lot and it wasn't too much of an information overload, but we are here to help you navigate this whole process. So feel free to make an appointment. We do have our email address as well as our website listed here. You're welcome to use them to schedule an appointment anytime or to shoot us any questions in an email. shoot us any questions in an email.