CAREER RESEARCH 

3. 
Name of the career:  Investment Banker 
 

Country/countries you wish to work in:  Canada, United States 

 

Salary range for that job in each country:  Canada: $80k 

  United States: $89k 
 
*Converted to USD 

Job opportunities in that country for that career:  Canada: Investment Banker at Scotiabank 
  [Income: $80k-$100k per year] (Link: 
https://ca.indeed.com/Investment-Banking-jobs
?vjk=e003fb52be1afac5​) 
United States: Investment Banker for 
Concourse Group [Income: $70k-$80k per 
year] (Link: 
https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/jobs.htm?sugge
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5-7 skills needed for success in that career (mix  Research - Research is by far the most 
of hard and soft):  important part of an Analysts job because, 
  without the data mined from research, there can 
be no analysis 
 
Detail Oriented - ​details of a ​financial analyst 
job​ and you need to be able to catch the 
changes, both mistakes, and trends, to be 
able to arrive at insightful conclusions. 
Analytical - bringing all your answers 
together in a coherent form to present to 
your client or your team. 
 
Organization - Being able to compile data, 
compile research findings, compile analysis 
in an organized manner that can save time 
efficiently is a skill many people do not 
appreciate enough. 
 
Decision-making - The global financial 
 services terrain is ever changing and a good 
financial analyst has to be able to make spot 
decisions based not the data he/she has so 
that a client can always be certain they are 
ahead of the curve. 

Highest level of education required to work in  University 

that career: 
 

Admission requirements to the program at the  Required Application Components for Stanford 
school you wish to attend:  University 
  Coalition Application or ​Common 
Application  
$90 nonrefundable application fee or 
fee waiver request  
ACT or SAT (Writing/Essay not required) 
(refer to t​ esting​ for score reporting 
policies) 
School Report and counselor letter of 
recommendation 
Official transcript(s) 
Letters of recommendation from two 
teachers 
Midyear transcript (by February 15) 

Describe a typical day/week in the job  A financial analyst is responsible for a wide 
(comment on work schedule per day/week,  range of activities including gathering data, 
typical tasks, proportion that you work alone or  organizing information, analyzing historical 
in teams, and anything else that helps explain  results, making forecasts and projections, 
making recommendations, and generating Excel 
what it’s like to do that job): 
modes, presentations, and reports. 
 

How will globalization & technology impact your  I think it’s going to make finding data easier 
job in the future?  because there is a vast amount of information 
  on the internet where you could research to find 
company’s records. This is going to make the job 
easier, but harder at the same time because you 
have to analyse more data.