Thursday, November 5, 2009

Capital Markets Technical Prep

"They" have always said that preparing for recruitment is like taking another class. That was certainly the case this morning as the CCC prepared a morning session entitled: "Capital Markets Technical Overview". The session was fully booked and Heather-Anne Irwin was teaching us about how to ramp up our learning for capital markets beyond what we were taught in our classes.

She gave us the opportunity to try to discuss complex finance terms in layman's terms appropriate for a technical interview scenario as well as a quick review of key financial indicators and what the implications were for movement in either direction. It was certainly a good primer for us to go about doing our own homework to learn more and form our own opinions of what's happening in the market.

While we are not officially graded on this course, perhaps our "grade" is the most important grade of all, the stamp of approval in the form of a summer job offer.

1 comment:

MegB said...

I am SO out of my element here! Why do these 'quant' courses have to have so many numbers?