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4 Alumni of the ESSEC Master in Finance answer candidates' questions live. They talk about their career path, their recruitment processes, their academic experience and their new career in M&A, Leveraged Finance or Investment Banking. Many questions are raised, including: Why choose the ESSEC Master in Finance vs another? Is this program reserved for engineers or open to business school students? What are the admission criteria to take into account for the application file? Does the Master in Finance give access to the best Anglo-Saxon banks in Investment Banking or Sales & Trading? Is the financial investment represented by the tuition fees of the ESSEC Master in Finance really profitable? Participants' backgrounds: Basma Afifi class of 2018/2019 from Morocco INSA Rouen Engineering School Master in Energy & Propulsion Prior internships: 1 year as a sales engineer at ENGIE + 4 months of research internship in Singapore at the solar energy research institute After the MIF: Summer Internship in London at a top 3 bank in Investment Banking Nada Wannous - class of 2017/2018 from Lebanon Master in Telecom Engineering at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut Prerequisite XP: summer internship at Banque Libano-Française + network engineer for 9 months at GlobalComData Services After the MIF: Summer S&T at Nomura: 3 Trading CVA / Credit / Strategy Risk Solutions rotations — hired as a result. Florian de Lafaye - class of 2016/2017 HEI Engineering School Master in IT and Finance Previous internships: 4 months IT Project Manager at HSBC + 7 months Financial Controller at Parex in Los Angeles After the MIF: internship at Mazars in financial audit + Graduate HSBC in Paris - currently in Leveraged Finance Ivan Palkin - class of 2017/2018 from Russia Master in Economics in Russia at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in DD with the CNAM XP Prerequisites: 2 years of permanent contract in Back and Middle Office at SG in Structured Finance After the MIF: internship M&A Société Générale in FIG - no previous experience in finance + Summer IBD MS London CFA level 3