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Goldmansachs - operations
How good is a position with Goldman sachs in operations to possibly move around/ for your CV say if you want to move eventually into trading/ Investment Management or take a top 10 MBA?
Goldmansachs - operations
I think that if you don't have other opportunities it can't hurt to work in operations. You may learn many things at the beginning and it's always easier to move into a front office of a bank if you already work in it. One advice: don't stay there too long, just enough to learn the maximum. Good luck!
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Goldmansachs - operations
Provided that you accept that a job in operations is not going to get you a sales / trading role without some sort of discontimnuity (an MBA at one of the feeder schools for sales / trading for example) then any experience in a well reputed investment bank is good. If you later decide that (post MBA) you would like to move into consulting / general maagenment then the majority of that type of work is looking at operations - so it's another nice string to your bow..
Goldmansachs - operations
Moving within Goldman is virtually impossible, and although working for GS for a year or two looks good on your cv you will get put in the "operations" box if you do it for a year or two, so struggle to get another role unless you try and take some sort of discontuity by getting an M.Sc. MBA etc.. afterwards. Also GS are notorious for slowly grinding you down towards suicide and extratcing everything they can along the way.
Goldmansachs - operations
Was in operations before moving to trading. Managed to get out after just over a year, but its not easy (suppose easier if you know where you want to go). I would guess that it gets harder as time goes on as some many more people now join direct to the FO graduate schemes. Also, switched firms as moving internally involved working your way there taking about 5yrs....