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Welcome to a comprehensive web site on investment banking careers. Investment Banks help companies and governments issue securities, help investors purchase securities, manage financial assets, trade securities and provide financial advice. The top investment banks including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are said to be in the bulge bracket.

Other investment banks are regionally oriented or situated in the middle market (e.g. Piper Jaffray). Others are small, specialized firms called boutiques which might be oriented toward an industry vertical, bond-trading, M&A advisory, technical analysis or program trading. Firms have lots of different areas and groups within them. In most firms, there is sales and trading which works with owners of securities, investment banking which works with issuers of securities (firms and governments) and capital markets which goes in between the other two.

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Job Seeker in Investment Banking Best Resources

Investment Banking Explained: An Insider's Guide to the Industry: Provides a complete overview of investment banking in its modern form; defines key terms and discusses the functions of investment banks.
Recruiting Contacts at the Major Investment Banks: This Guide provides you 90+ contacts you need to break into the major investment banks. You will find the names and contact details of the campus recruiters and human resources professionals that are busy with hiring into the investment banking industry.
Guide to Boutique Investment Banks: One of the best places to find a job in a tough banking market is to talk to smaller niche investment banks that have not been as impacted by subprime mortgages, bad loans etc. This guide provides key information including recruiting contacts for the top boutique banks.
Investment Banking Insider's Guide.: Wall Street, where dreams are made and destroyed. While many want to enter, few are given the opportunity. This book serves as a pragmatic guide with tips on what to do as you try to break through what may seem to be an impenetrable door.
Monkey Business: Swinging through the Wall Street Jungle.: By John Rolfe and Peter Troob.; Many a starry-eyed megalomaniac has followed the siren song of Wall Street. Money, prestige, and power await them as they waltz off into the promised land...or so they think. The promised land, it turns out, is always one more twenty-hour workday ... Monkey Business is the hilarious confession of two young investment bankers.
My Life as an Investment Banker: An online 12 part story.
Flocking to Finance: Harvard Magazine, 2008
Working the Street: What You Need to Know About Life on Wall Street: by Erik Banks. A very practical guide to use once you have your banking job.

Investment Banking Career Links

Banking Basics from Citigroup
Find Investment Banking Jobs on thousands of job sites with one search. Provided by Indeed.com, "a one stop shop for job seekers" (Wall Street Journal).
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From the Movie:
Wall Street
[Blue Star has gone from 24 to 16 1/2 in a very short time]
Gordon Gekko: Fox, where the hell are you? I am losing MILLIONS! You got me into this airline and you sure as hell better get me out or the only job you'll ever have on the Street is SWEEPING IT! You hear me, Fox?
Bud Fox: You once told me, don't get emotional about stock. Don't! The bid is 16 1/2 and going down. As your broker, I advise you to take it.
Gordon Gekko: Yeah. Well you TAKE IT!

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