A majority of the companies that have flocked to Harvard this September to wine-and-dine seniors and inform them about their companies are, as in past years, in the financial sector.
But Gia Morón, a media relations representative at the investment bank Goldman, Sachs & Co. said the company does not expect students to be finance wizzes yet.
“When we hire people on campus we are not hiring them because of any knowledge they may have acquired about our industry,” she wrote in an e-mail.
“We have found that financial know-how is easy to teach—in fact, training is an important part of a new hire’s orientation—but the skills that the most successful candidates possess are beyond teaching: Energy, a history of excellence and achievement, leadership and interpersonal skills are some of the stand-outs,” she said.
Moron added that a demonstrated interest in finance is a plus.