TCFA Career Development Series: Mentor Dinner Event
Release date: 2018-09-12 20:09:41 release: TCFA
TCFA Career Development Series: Mentor Dinner Event
On June 7th, 2018, over 30 guests attended The Chinese Finance Association (“TCFA”) Career Development Series: Mentor dinner event, held at Evergreen Shanghai restaurant in midtown Manhattan. TCFA invited four mentors that consisted of distinguished senior professionals at various asset management and finance companies: Ms. Manhua Leng, Principal at Earnst & Young; Mr. Eric Yan, Head of Cross-Asset Strategy at Bayview Asset Management; Ms. Jing An, Partner at Omega Credit Opportunities Fund; Mr. Jerry Wang, Founder and CEO at Haitou Global. The mentees consisted of mostly professionals across a variety of job functions in finance and experience levels as well as students. During the two hours session, each mentor held a table and met with mentees in small groups with candid and casual conversation. The mentors shared their Wall Street career experience and provided valuable advice on career development, including interview preparation, networking, promotion, fit into American culture, executive presence, etc. The event was followed by 30 minutes networking session.
TCFA is a New York based non-profit organization with more than 6,000 active members around the world, servicing the Chinese professionals in the finance industry. The TCFA has held the mentor event for 8 years with 49 mentors and over 480 mentees have benefited from the event. To stay updated on future TCFA events, please follow us on the website or become a member.