New mentor, Janet Mangano, and new mentee, Eliezer Nunez, sat down with each other for an interview. Enjoy learning more about two of our newest EOC members!
Janet: What is your year and your major?
Eliezer: 1st year in full-time honors cohort and graduating in 2012. My major is Finance. I am especially interested in investment analysis.
Janet: What do you want to do when you graduate?
Eliezer: Ideally, I’d like to work analyzing investment opportunities for corporations or institutional investors.
Janet: What has been the highlight of your mentorship?
Eliezer: The first meeting with my mentor was awesome; she is someone from whom I’ll learn a lot and connect with constantly.
Janet: What has been the most challenging part of graduate school?
Eliezer: Without a doubt it has been my statistics class and trying to understand a quantitative course conceptually.
Janet: How has your relationship with your mentor helped you with school? Prepared you for your career?
Eliezer: Motivating conversations with Janet when I was really worn down by semester’s end helped me forge ahead. Knowing what to do in searching for a job and shaping my career.
Janet: What does mentoring mean to you?
Eliezer: Someone who can help you be wiser than you would be based on your own experience.
Janet: What do you do in your spare time?
Eliezer: I stay physically active by running, weight-training and playing basketball, baseball and soccer.
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Eliezer: What is your background?
Janet: Thirty years of professional experience in institutional and individual portfolio management and investment research. Twenty-four years in the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) and the CFA institute.
Eliezer: What has been the highlight of your mentee relationship?
Janet: That’s easy to answer! I was so happy to meet Eliezer, my very first mentee. I was also very thrilled to meet my cohort of fellow mentors.
Eliezer: What does mentoring mean to you?
Janet: It means sharing the best and worst of my career with a young star. He inspires me in ways he does not know.
Eliezer: What advice can you give to students entering the workforce?
Janet: As you look for your first job, consider all possibilities and aim high. Do not say yes until you have a job offer that is acceptable to you. Be excited when you say YES to the employer’s offer.
Eliezer: What advice can you give mentors mentoring students in today’s world?
Janet: Be realistic in assessing the true possibilities that suit your mentee and provide your mentee with actionable and accountable advice.
Eliezer: What do you do in your spare time?
Janet: I love to play the piano and listen to music. I practice on my own every day and enjoy performing with and for others. I also play golf with an unmentionable handicap.
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