I must really thank God for giving me a chance to intern at Credit Suisse. I must say, unlike my previous internship that is very tiring and stressful, this one is much much better.
Ok, as part of our internship program, there was this project called Meeting MD/Dir project where interns must 'interview' 10 senior directors of the company. So far my group, Apurva, Vinod, Priyanka and Chen Hao, has met 4 directors. We find the sessions were really inspiring!
Of all 4 directors that we've met, they all have very different personalities and career paths. The first director we met was Jason Forrester, British, MD for Operation Risk Management. He is very cool and organized. He explain to us systematically on what his department is about, what he does in normal day and how he can make it to the top. He even prepared slides for us, *he's the only one doing that. He know what he's talking and we got useful info on how to plan your career in a bank but it's confidential.
The next guy, I would say, the most interesting of all four, he's our favorite. His name is Tom Gillie, American, a forex options trader. He came unprepared and just finish his coffee. My first impression of him was like, this guy is really slacking, messy and unfocused. He gives us impression that he was such a nerd who only do trading and trading. BUT! After he talked, woah, we can really tell his passion toward his job. Though he jumps from one topic to another, he spilled out a lot of things (also cursing CS' eternal competitor, UBS lol). The things are also confidential (haha, I'm just too lazy to write). Then he showed us how to do transaction. He got 11 monitors for himself, a lot of them I don't know for what although he kept explaining to us (we just nod nod without knowing what delta, gamma etc etc are). But he really cool! And honestly I like the atmosphere in his department. Everyone is so friendly. When we want to take picture, they immediately posing lol. Btw, it's the first real trading floor that I have ever visited in my life haha. Overall, Tom rocks!
Next guy is called Johannes Oeni, Head of South East Asia Private Banking. As you can guess from his name, he's Indonesian (that's why I chose him). He's very busy so we only spent 30 minutes with hime (the rest is like 1 hr plus). But we know he's very friendly and charismatic. He also gave us some advice on how to be a good private banker. Again, confidential of course lol. I wish he was not busy and we could talk more..
Last one is called Leong Clinton. We dont know where he came from but obviously not Hongkong cause he denied it already. This was our longest interview, 1.5hrs. He talked all the way, from his work experience and how he moved from one office to another. But the part that is very inspiring for us was when talked about us how he built his career. He gave some great advices too, and a lot of spoiler of how bank actually works. One thing that I can spill to you, he said 'Dont ever trade opportunity with money'. Yes Leong, I didn't, don't and hopefully won't!
This four guys were really inspiring for us. Through them we got a clearer view on how things work and don't work, how to create your own path of success etc etc. I never regret that I met them. Hopefully the next 6 will be as inspiring! Later I'll update this blog, directors that we want to meet next is of course from IB, IT, if possible Research, Product and Legal Compliance...and more banker and trader please^^
Ok, as part of our internship program, there was this project called Meeting MD/Dir project where interns must 'interview' 10 senior directors of the company. So far my group, Apurva, Vinod, Priyanka and Chen Hao, has met 4 directors. We find the sessions were really inspiring!
Of all 4 directors that we've met, they all have very different personalities and career paths. The first director we met was Jason Forrester, British, MD for Operation Risk Management. He is very cool and organized. He explain to us systematically on what his department is about, what he does in normal day and how he can make it to the top. He even prepared slides for us, *he's the only one doing that. He know what he's talking and we got useful info on how to plan your career in a bank but it's confidential.
The next guy, I would say, the most interesting of all four, he's our favorite. His name is Tom Gillie, American, a forex options trader. He came unprepared and just finish his coffee. My first impression of him was like, this guy is really slacking, messy and unfocused. He gives us impression that he was such a nerd who only do trading and trading. BUT! After he talked, woah, we can really tell his passion toward his job. Though he jumps from one topic to another, he spilled out a lot of things (also cursing CS' eternal competitor, UBS lol). The things are also confidential (haha, I'm just too lazy to write). Then he showed us how to do transaction. He got 11 monitors for himself, a lot of them I don't know for what although he kept explaining to us (we just nod nod without knowing what delta, gamma etc etc are). But he really cool! And honestly I like the atmosphere in his department. Everyone is so friendly. When we want to take picture, they immediately posing lol. Btw, it's the first real trading floor that I have ever visited in my life haha. Overall, Tom rocks!
Next guy is called Johannes Oeni, Head of South East Asia Private Banking. As you can guess from his name, he's Indonesian (that's why I chose him). He's very busy so we only spent 30 minutes with hime (the rest is like 1 hr plus). But we know he's very friendly and charismatic. He also gave us some advice on how to be a good private banker. Again, confidential of course lol. I wish he was not busy and we could talk more..
Last one is called Leong Clinton. We dont know where he came from but obviously not Hongkong cause he denied it already. This was our longest interview, 1.5hrs. He talked all the way, from his work experience and how he moved from one office to another. But the part that is very inspiring for us was when talked about us how he built his career. He gave some great advices too, and a lot of spoiler of how bank actually works. One thing that I can spill to you, he said 'Dont ever trade opportunity with money'. Yes Leong, I didn't, don't and hopefully won't!
This four guys were really inspiring for us. Through them we got a clearer view on how things work and don't work, how to create your own path of success etc etc. I never regret that I met them. Hopefully the next 6 will be as inspiring! Later I'll update this blog, directors that we want to meet next is of course from IB, IT, if possible Research, Product and Legal Compliance...and more banker and trader please^^