Students with aspirations in finance frantically refresh job portals, treating the application as the starting line.
But it isn’t.
By the time these finance portals go live, the students most likely to land offers have already spent months or years doing the quiet work that never shows up on a resume.

This post was updated Aug 7 at 12:45 p.m.
At a finance career fair, desperation is easy to spot.
Finance has long been an industry in which connections often determine your professional opportunities.

Forget spiders, snakes or heights – for some, public speaking is the most frightening thing of all.
Founded this fall, Speech Team @UCLA provides UCLA students with the opportunity to strengthen their speaking skills, said Ernesto Perez, a team membership co-president of Speech Club.