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Welcome Finance Majors!

Welcome Finance majors! Explore our comprehensive range of resources, including where to find internships, certifications, and real-time resources for finance students.

Career Paths to Explore for Finance Majors

Job Titles for Finance Students

Internships: How to Find Them & When to Apply

An internship is a short-term work experience offered by companies and other organizations for people—usually students - to get some entry-level exposure to a particular industry or field. Internships allow you to :

Gain real world work experience
Increase your ability showcase your professional skills
Confirm a career path you want to enter in to after graduation
Increase your professional network

Check out this presentation to learn how to get started with your internship search!

Although you can have as many internship experiences as you'd like, many students will choose to pursue their internship the summer before their senior year of college. Hear about a Finance student's internship experience!

Certifications/Resources

Business and Financial Modeling
Wharton's Business and Financial Modeling Specialization is designed to help you make informed business and financial decisions. These foundational courses will introduce you to spreadsheet models, modeling techniques, and common applications for investment analysis, company valuation, forecasting, and more. When you complete the Specialization, you'll be ready to use your own data to describe realities, build scenarios, and predict performance.
Bloomberg Professional Certificiate
The Bloomberg Terminal located in Swinney Financial Lab on the first floor of COBA offers students a resource that provides them with insight into investments and other financial opportunities. BMC consists of 8 different courses including economic indicators, currency, fixed income, equities, terminal basics, commodities, stock options, and portfolio management
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning is an American online learning platform. It provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. All the courses on LinkedIn fall into four categories: Business, Creative, Technology, and Certifications
The Wall Street Journal
online coverage of breaking news, and current headlines from around the world including finance, real estate, personal finance, and the economy
Value Line
Provides investment education and trends in stocks to help users be ahead of the investment curve. Specific insight for Finance majors include stock market data, investment education, insider information, and stock/bond ratings.
SIE exam Information
The SIE exam was designed to provide a head start into a financial services career — showing job seekers’ interest and aptitude in the field, as well as helping them stand out to potential employers. This introductory-level exam covers fundamental concepts for working in the industry and is required and administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Topics include: types of products and their risks; structure of securities markets; regulatory agencies and their functions; prohibited practices.
Series 7 Certification Exam
The General Securities Representative Qualification Examination (GS) — assesses the competency of an entry-level registered representative to perform their job as a general securities representative.

The exam measures the degree to which each candidate possesses the knowledge needed to perform the critical functions of a general securities representative, including sales of corporate securities, municipal securities, investment company securities, variable annuities, direct participation programs, options and government securities.

Books on Finance

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
ISBN: 1439167346
Publication Date: 2009-11-03
You can go after the job you want! You can take the job you have--and improve it! You can take any situation--and make it work for you! Dale Carnegie's rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you: -Six ways to make people like you -Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking -Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment
The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed by Benjamin Graham
ISBN: 0060555661
Publication Date: 2006-02-21
"By far the best book on investing ever written; Warren Buffett and the classic text of Benjamin Graham's seminal The Intelligent Investor has now been revised and annotated to update the timeless wisdom for today's market conditions The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.
Investment Banking by Joshua Rosenbaum; Joshua Harris (Afterword by); Joshua Pearl; Joseph R. Perella (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781118656211
Publication Date: 2013-06-05
The No. 1 guide to investment banking and valuation methods, including online tools In the constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Until the welcomed arrival of authors Josh Rosenbaum and Josh Pearl, no one had taken the time to properly codify the lifeblood of the corporate financier's work-namely, valuation, through all of the essential lenses of an investment banker.
Rule #1 by Phil Town
ISBN: 9781415927090
As Phil demonstrates in these pages, giant mutual funds can’t help but regress to the mean—and as we’ve all learned in recent years, that mean could be very disappointing indeed. Fortunately, Rule #1 takes readers step-by-step through a do-it-yourself process, equipping even the biggest investing-phobes with the tools they need to make quantum leaps toward financial security—regardless of where the market is headed.
The Warren Buffett Way by Peter Lynch ; Kenneth L. Fisher ; Robert G. Hagstrom; Howard Marks ; Bill Miller
ISBN: 9781118503256
Publication Date: 2013-09-30
The new edition updates readers on the latest investments by Buffett. And, more importantly, it draws on the new field of behavioral finance to explain how investors can overcome the common obstacles that prevent them from investing like Buffett. New material includes: How to think like a long-term investor - just like Buffett Why "loss aversion", the tendency of most investors to overweight the pain of losing money.

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Welcome Finance Majors!

Career Paths to Explore for Finance Majors

Internships: How to Find Them & When to Apply

Certifications/Resources

Books on Finance