Lehigh Alumni Host Financial Services Forum for Students
The Lehigh Wall Street Council (LWSC) recently hosted an event at Lehigh University’s College of Business and Economics to help students prepare for job searching and network with alumni. The Financial Services Forum featured a variety of events for students and alumni.
Jeffrey Bosland ’88, the managing director and co-head of the American Sales and Marketing Group at J.P. Morgan, gave the forum’s keynote address. He advised graduates: “Financial services is a very rewarding industry, but you have to really want to do it. [. . .] You will be working hard and sometimes putting in long days so it’s important to do what you really enjoy”.
The event also featured a Young Alumni Panel, where recent graduates encouraged students to reach out to Lehigh’s alumni network for job opportunities. After the panel, students had the opportunity to go to smaller sessions on different divisions of the financial sector: wealth management, asset management, research, sales and trading, investment banking, or real estate. Each session was led by three or four alumni speakers with expertise in the field discussing what to expect from careers in their sector of financial services.
The Lehigh Wall Street Council was founded by Michael Connor ’80, ‘14P and Andrew Fife ’85 more than a decade ago to provide career and business opportunities to Lehigh alumni and networking and guidance to Lehigh students in the financial sector. The group also provides alumni the chance to come back to Lehigh. The LWSC now has over 1,800 members, and Fife is the president. The group sponsors activities year-round including on-campus seminars and events in New York City.
This year marked the seventh year of the LWSC Financial Services Forum. Nearly 200 students attended the event this year, making this year’s forum the LWSC’s best attended event.
