BlackRock is a large Investment management company based in New York City. This event was focused primarily on their product Aladdin which is an investment platform connecting data, people, and tools in the pursuit of managing investment portfolios. The platform fuses risk analytics with investments tools to inform decisions. The platform is unparalleled and widely …
This is the second LinkedIn Learning course that I’ve taken and was on the topic of unconscious biases. The instructor presented an overview of unconscious bias and tools to mitigate the effects of unconscious bias. There are more than 180 unconscious biases, and, although they are unconscious, we can interrupt our biases and heuristics to …
This LinkedIn course was a brief yet comprehensive introduction to career planning. It very helpfully broke down the process into digestible steps. First, the instructor had us write a list of values/adjectives that we feel would be important in a career or job. I wrote down: valued, impactful, creative, connected, growth, empathy, and balanced as …
Elizabeth Campagna 45 Wyllys Avenue, WesBox 91624, Middletown, CT 06459 ecampagna@wesleyan.edu • 917-331-7666 EDUCATION Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT …
1. What are you hoping to learn from this experience? From my campus employment experience with Special Collections & Archives, I hope to learn more about the collections available at Wesleyan, the practicalities of collection maintenance, and more about myself as a professional. 2. How do you see this work as complementing your academic, extracurricular, …
The GCC held an event with a panel and moderator from Bloomberg, the financial data software company. Bloomberg provides a financial data analysis service to a variety of clients. They routinely improve their software to provide the most accurate and insightful information to their clients. They described themselves as having the following key facets: data, …
This week I attended the Wesleyan Investment Office information session for their Summer 2023 Internship opportunity. This caught my attention while looking through Handshake because I’m interested in how the endowment is managed, maintained, and grown. Wesleyan deals in many different types of assets, and all members within the department deal with all asset classes. …
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During this period I want to challenge myself to explore a variety of career opportunities, enhance and expand upon my skills, and become more comfortable with applying to jobs and other career opportunities. I’m committed to expanding my practical skills (i.e. Excel) so that I will be less limited in the types of opportunities that …
