Saturday, March 03, 2007

so there IS hope!

Recently I became really worried about getting internships because of something a friend said to me. He said that normally for trading internships you need to show that you have had some trading experience on your own before.

Well, during the flurry of internship applications I haven't really considered THAT. So I left my friend feeling crushed and hopeless as I knew I'd probably not get called for interviews because I never displayed any trading capabilities either in the resume or cover letter. All I've got is a new, empty account with Vickers.

Yesterday, after getting back home from Zouk at 4 am I decided to check my school e-mail to see if Chloe's sent any facility booking confirmation for our meeting venue the next day. But all thoughts of the project meeting flew out the window when I read an e-mail from someone else: the Campus Recruitment manager of Goldman Sachs.

So there's my first interview, and whilst I'm afraid of botching it up I'm also full of hope. The best scenario that can happen now is that they offer me the internship at the end. Hell, it's not even IB we're talking about here. It's Trading. That extremely competitive, tough, hard-to-get-in business area. If I really get it I'm gonna open several bottles at Velvet!

But if I don't, well, at least they'd given me hope, which is one of the best damn things you can have next to you.