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How hard is it to get a job in investment banking?

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Goldman Sachs accepted 3% of applicants in 2015, and Morgan Stanley accepted 2% (i.e. banking jobs are tougher to get than a Harvard acceptance letter). See this article: It's Unbelievably Hard to Get a Job at Goldman Sachs. read more

Although investment bankers come from a relatively diverse range of academic disciplines, you’ll have to work twice as hard to get in if your degree subject deviates from the banking norm. “My English degree still raises eyebrows,” says one banker, who got a job at a mid-cap investment bank through a graduate trainee scheme two years ago. read more

Getting a job in investment banking is not easy. I live here in Singapore and it is probably one of the most buoyant employment markets in Asia right now. Even so, I see graduates and mid-career professionals struggling to get into the likes of UBS, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, CitiGroup or Deutsche Bank. read more

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