Information Sessions, Associate Applications, and More! | Bruin Finance Society Week 2 Newsletter
Hi everyone,
We hope you all had a good Week 1! We have a few announcements to make, about our information sessions, associate application, and more!
Information Sessions
We’re excited to announce that we will be holding our information sessions during Week 3! We will have two information sessions; the first will be an in-person meeting on Tuesday, October 17th, from 6:30-7:30 PM. The second session will be held over Zoom on Wednesday, October 18th, also from 6:30-7:30 PM. The dress code is casual. If you are planning to attend, please fill out the RSVP form below. We will have limited seats for our in-person session, so that session will be first-come first-served based on the RSVP form. We look forward to seeing everyone there!
RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/DtjqrZ2csApDbJ2c8.
Associate Application
Additionally, Associate applications are now open! As an Associate of BFS, members will be assigned to one of our committees to gain professional and leadership experience by assisting with club operations. They will also be eligible for special BFS opportunities and career development, such as consulting projects we will be organizing starting this winter, and social programs such as Families. BFS Associates experience everything BFS has to offer, and we heavily encourage everyone to apply!
Associate Application Link: https://forms.gle/qDCSFR5t89NZHTUu7
General Meetings
We will be hosting six general meetings this quarter! Each general meeting focuses on a different career path, and consists of a presentation with a knowledgeable guest speaker and a workshop to help you further develop your skills. After each meeting, we walk together to a UCLA dining hall for a dining hall run, which is an excellent opportunity to participate in the BFS community.
Our general meetings are open to all UCLA students. In addition, we do look at attendance in reviewing Associate applications, and we require Associates to attend a minimum number of general and committee meetings per quarter. Thus, we highly recommend attending as many as you can, for professional development, participating in our community, and to get more involved with BFS!
We will be hosting these meetings on Tuesdays at 6:30 PM Weeks 4-9, so please set these dates aside in your calendar! Our dress code will be casual, and the locations will be announced in a later email. The topics we will be covering this quarter (in no particular order) are:
Management Consulting
Investment Banking
Accounting
Finance
Actuarial
Quantitative Finance
In addition to our mailing list, we’ll also be announcing these meetings on Instagram, so make sure to follow us there!
Instagram (@bruinfinance): https://www.instagram.com/bruinfinance/
BFS Stock Market Game
Our Fall Quarter stock market game currently has 50 players! As promised, 5 people who joined before the end of Week 1 were randomly selected to win a Bruin Finance Society NFC Business Card. Congratulations to our winners:
Grace Liang
Daniel Pikovskiy
Joseph Wang
Hamza Soboh
Ryan Kung
We’ll be reaching out to you within the next couple of weeks to deliver your card!
Make sure to join the game and buy your first stock to be eligible to win more prizes throughout Fall Quarter!
BFS Stock Market Game Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/games/bruin-finance-society-stock-market-game
Bruin All-Finance Calendar
We research every event and application deadline from the over 50 business/finance organizations at UCLA, and we email it to you weekly through our Bruin All-Finance Calendar. This is to help everyone on our mailing list (who filled out our Interest Form) keep track of the many UCLA business/finance opportunities and organizations. Our first All-Finance Calendar email will come out before our information sessions, and we’ll email updates every Monday morning afterward!
We look forward to meeting all of our new members and seeing our returning ones again! Thank you for making BFS the best business/finance community at UCLA!
Best,
Chris Ramsey (BFS President) and Aaron Kaneda (BFS Internal Vice President)
If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us at bruinfinancesociety@gmail.com.