<p>Hey so I go to a top 50 school in the south, and I am a recently declared finance major with a 3.3 GPA. I'm trying to prepare myself for the business world and im looking for things i can do every day to get better at my craft, like what sort of things i should read. im already starting by reading all 6 of the front page articles on the new york times, but what else is there to do? do the same thing for the WSJ? im very into electronics, and i would love for an app or something someone could advise i get to follow the markets, stocks, etc. just what are some general daily things i can do. thanks</p>
<p>also for my resume, i run a “x problems” twitter account, which is like just a general twitter account where student express their problems about the school using hashtags. it had 4k+ followers. should i add this onto my resume if im going to apply for a business internship this summer?</p>
<p>Go to investopedia.com, that site is fantastic for people that want to start learning about finance. I would suggest playing their stock market game, it teaches you a lot about the market and buying/selling stocks, mutual funds, ETF’s, bonds, etc. Reading WSJ and NyTimes is very good. I would also suggest going to news.google.com and subscribing to any news agency you want. It’s a great tool and compiles all the news you want to see in one place. I have my settings to where I get more news related to business and stock markets. I would also go to this website [No</a> Excuse List](<a href=“http://www.noexcuselist.com%5DNo”>http://www.noexcuselist.com) and then under academics check out some of those links and head to the business related information. </p>
<p>As far as the twitter thing goes, I would just leave that part out unless you actually express those problems to a school administrator</p>
<p>Ok well for the twitter thing, it’s crazy and it really shows my thinking process about things. i managed to get a school with 6k undergrads and have 3k+ following me. and you have to realize that a smaller percentage than u think have TWITTER, were not talking about facebook here. so i did a lot of things to be creative and get people to follow me. but thanks for the advice, does anyone have anything else on what they can offer? im very interested in the WSJ, but i dont know what specific section is most beneficial to me? like maybe the economics, market, etc? read all the articles from those? anyone have any actual apps that i should buy/follow daily? thanks</p>
<p>If you just declared a major, I’m guessing you’re a sophomore, and I’m also guessing you don’t know exaaaaaactly what you want to do (no worries, that’s fine!).</p>
<p>If you want to prepare yourself for the business world, try to look for business internships. Companies recruit interns in the spring, so you are actually in a great position right now. Find out which companies recruit, and apply for any that catch your fancy! Recognize that, as a sophomore, it’s unlikely that you will actually get an internship, but some of my friends from college applied to junior-specific internships as sophomores and actually found their way in.</p>
<p>Internships are quite helpful, and if you can secure one, you’ll have a bit of an advantage over others when you go through full time recruiting during the fall of your senior year. You would do yourself a favor if you go to career services and talk to them… never hurts to get an early start on things.</p>
<p>As for that Twitter account, it doesn’t belong in your resume or on your cover letter… but it’s something that you could always bring up during an interview!</p>
<p>Ok but why doesn’t it belong on my r</p>
<p>You’re only supposed to put relevant information on a resume (focus, education, experience and maybe a few words on some interests of yours). You putting that you have a twitter account with so many followers doesn’t help the interviewer get to know you. He or she doesn’t know how you think by just saying that on your resume unless he or she actually gets on twitter and sees that account, which I doubt they will have the time for. The person interviewing you gets to know how you think by the way you answer their questions. That is why interviewers ask “tell me about a time you did X, how did you go about it?”. These types of questions tell the interviewer what the situation was and how you approached it. Like chrisw has mentioned, you can just say the twitter thing during the interview, but not on the resume.</p>
<p>ok because i know somebody who is really into sports and bets on football games, and he said that as he mentioned this in the interview for trading and sales the person saw his thinking into how he bets and thought his thinking process would fit perfectly into the trading business. thanks tho</p>
<p>Yes, exactly: “He mentioned this in the interview” … betting on football games for fun should not appear on a resume. But the specific metrics that drive these bets can be very interesting and help to show credibility. When I interviewed at companies with a quantitative analysis focus, I brought a copy of a term paper that I wrote for a class; this paper had ten pages worth of appendices that showed how I manipulated raw data to show meaningful results. It was dynamite in an interview, but it would have been pointless to include it in a resume.</p>
<p>word im hoping i can manipulate my situation in such a way that it plays into my favor as well. thanks</p>