Deadline to Apply: Reed College Financial Services Fellowship
Monday, November 19, 12 p.m. (noon)

The Reed College Financial Services Fellowship is a career exploration program that allows students, who are interested in financial services and/or quantitative fields of work, to gain insight into career options in the financial services industry through a short-term field trip to New York City.  The inaugural trip will give a group of 5-8 students, selected through a competitive application process, the opportunity to meet alumni and financial leaders.  The trip will include a business dinner the first night with alumni and trustees of the College; an opportunity the next day to shadow professionals in the workplace to get a sense of day to day operations, to discuss specific jobs and careers in the field, and potentially to take a tour of a trading floor; a more casual dinner the second night; more 1:1 or group meetings on day 3, followed by some free time to explore the City; then return to Portland the next day.  The plan is to leave Portland on Monday, March 18, and return to Portland on Thursday, March 21.  All expenses are paid through the generosity of a Reed trustee.

Goals: 

1. Allows selected interested students to learn more about specific career options and companies in financial services.
2. Provides employers in these fields an opportunity to meet bright, engaged candidates for future recruitment.

Candidates for the Reed College Financial Services Fellowship must be currently enrolled at Reed with sophomore or junior standing.  Those with course work in physics, math, and other sciences or economics will be favored.  The application process includes a series of questions designed to allow the selection committee, composed of Reed College investment committee trustees, to learn who you are and why you are interested in being a Reed College Financial Services Fellow.  A resume is also required.  Top candidates will be selected for a telephone interview with selection committee members.  Fellows will be announced around mid-December.  If you are selected, you will be asked to confirm your interest, commit to the trip, and engage in some preparation, including shopping for business wardrobe with some of the fellowship funds, during early spring semester.  The application will be available through the career services web site.  The online application must be submitted, along with a resume sent to career.services@reed.edu, by the deadline:  Noon, Monday, November 19^th.