{"id":121,"date":"2008-12-05T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-12-07T01:51:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T09:51:55","slug":"mba-admissions-is-finance-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-admissions-is-finance-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Admissions: Is Finance Impossible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened this morning to a Haas podcast \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haas.berkeley.edu\/haas\/podcast\/audio\/haas_finance_recruit1.mp3\"><strong>Careers in finance remain viable in tumultuous times<\/strong><\/a>\" with Abby Scott, Executive Director of Career Services at Haas, and a welcome voice of reason for panicked times. She acknowledges the current difficulties in the financial services industry, but also emphasizes that some firms are still hiring, particularly for M&amp;A. work. In other words, the sky may be down, but it hasn't fallen entirely.<\/p>\n<p>While the podcast naturally has a strong <a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/UCBerkeleyHaas.aspx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/UCBerkeleyHaas.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Haas<\/a> focus, it is relevant to MBA wannabes who think that finance as a field has disappeared as a result of the credit crisis and recession. It also highlights Haas' strength in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened this morning to a Haas podcast &#8220;Careers in finance remain viable in tumultuous times&#8221; with Abby Scott, Executive Director of Career Services at Haas, and a welcome voice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,4,6],"tags":[39,53,44],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-career-reviews","category-current-events","tag-mba-admissions","tag-uc-berkeley-haas","tag-ucla-anderson","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}