Significant Career Lesson From an Investment Banking Associate at a Global Investment Bank
In today's fast-paced work environment, Trent, an Investment Banking Associate, emphasizes the importance of "taking the moment to review the material" before submitting work. This extra step, even if it means taking "an extra hour," results in a "perfect deliverable," minimizing revisions and maximizing manager satisfaction.
Project Management, Communication, Problem-Solving, Time Management, Attention to Detail
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Trent Hammond
Investment Banking Associate
Global Investment Bank
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2017
UCLA Anderson School of Management - MBA
Finance
Finance (Banking, Fintech, Investing)
Finance
Took Out Loans, Student Athlete
Video Highlights
1. Take time to thoroughly review your work before submitting it. Even an extra hour of review can prevent errors and revisions, leading to greater manager satisfaction.
2. In today's fast-paced work environment, the ability to pause and reflect is crucial for quality work.
3. Attention to detail and accuracy are highly valued in investment banking, even if it means slowing down initially to ensure a higher quality deliverable
Transcript
What is one lesson that you have learned that has proven significant in your career?
I think one of the biggest things is, especially with life right now where everything is so quick, responses are expected extremely quick as well. Everything is just so fast in life right now.
I think one of the biggest things is taking the moment to review the material that you're working on. When you have a deliverable and you're working on it, before you send it off to a manager, the biggest thing was taking a step away and then jumping back into it, reviewing it again before sending it off.
Because when you're completing something, a manager is much happier with you taking the extra hour to review it and put together almost a perfect deliverable. This is compared to if you have that immediate response, but then there are multiple things that someone you're reporting to has to make fixes on or even send it back and ask you to work on it again.