Thursday, April 29, 2010

First Post

I am a BBA junior, and will be interning at UBS Sales & Trading, Fixed Income and Commodities this summer. Talking to seniors who have interned on trading desks in the past, it seems that most of my summer will be spent building relationships with co-workers and full time staff, as well as basic office tasks like photocopying, scanning, picking up coffee, and picking up food. Outside of this, a lot of downtime is to be expected between tasks, with the onus on interns to take the initiative and seek out more work to maximize their learning experience.

As of now, UBS has not given any details about what my summer project would be, hence no one in the intern class knows what it entails, must be done or even what to expect etc. Given the amount of down time expected at work, working on the project and tuning it up to a high quality product should not be a problem since plenty of time can be spent on it.

Working at UBS will be exciting as they have a trading floor the size of approximately two football fields, with all traders on the same space. Such an environment will definitely be exciting and highly charged when markets are open, and is something I look forward to being part of. On the other hand, working for the first time outside of home and in a foreign working culture will be a challenge that I foresee must be overcome.

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