Inside one third year student's strategy for getting a Citadel hedge fund internship
18 months ago, Emma Wardle wasn't sure that she wanted to work in financial services. As an electronic and information engineering student at London's Imperial College, Wardle was keeping her options open. Maybe finance. Maybe a technology start-up. Maybe consulting.
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«I went in not knowing what I wanted to do and being open to try anything,» says Wardle, who was in her third year of university. «My strategy was to see which offers I got and then to decide what I wanted to do.»
Among the responses to 30 varied applications, hedge fund, Citadel, got back to her. Citadel offered Wardle an internship with its London fixed income and macro team. Until that point, she says she knew almost nothing about finance. «I came from a background where I'd done a lot of maths but where I had very little knowledge about things like rates and markets,» she says. «It was a steep learning curve, but I received a lot of help and there were always experienced people around to answer questions.»
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