Title of workshop attended: Keys to Success
Category of Workshop: Personal Enrichment
Date/time of workshop: 9/30, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
The Keys to Success workshop was basically three guest speakers (Hamilton Lin, David Kovacs, Elisabetta Bartoloni) who are apart of the Wall St. Training team. They talked about the keys to success, which included a step by step action plan on how to be successful, tips for interviewing and resume writing, and a section where questions regarding related business were answered. The goals of this workshop was to inform the audience to get a better understanding of the finance world and to promote their organization: Wall St. Training.
I actually really enjoyed this workshop. It was very helpful in informing me about the financial world. I think the most important thing I learned was “It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.” This definitely took me out of my comfort zone because the workshop was geared towards older undergraduates who knew that they were planning to enter the financial world. However, I still gained some knowledge that I think will put me ahead because I am still a freshman. I would definitely recommend this to another student. Hamilton gave great personal feedback and offered a lot of advice on how to make it in the business world, especially if you wanted to go into finance. He was also very funny. David Koracs answered many questions that were asked. He was very blunt and did not sugarcoat his answers, which in my opinion was one of the best part of the workshop. Elisabetta Bartoloni was a little boring, but she offered great tips of how to get the interview and how to write your resume.
In the end, I think this is one of my favorite workshops so far. It was very interesting and I feel that it will definitely help me in my career. It also gave me a feel of what working in the financial world will be like. I was surprised of how competitive the business world is. I mean, I knew that the business/finance world was competitive but seeing so many people who had the same goals/intentions as me was astounding. From this workshop, I think I should really step up my game.